HIV care and treatment
ICAP-Supported Clinics in South Sudan Buzz with “I-Surge” Activity to Meet HIV Testing and Care Targets
At ICAP’s office in Juba, South Sudan, Shambel Aragaw’s phone buzzes. Aragaw, a medical doctor, is the technical director for ICAP in South Sudan, and the buzz is a WhatsApp notification. But not just any notification. This is the daily summary of all HIV-related...
ICAP “I-Surge” Efforts Double Number of HIV Tests at Key Locations in Côte d’Ivoire
Only 37 percent of people living with HIV in Côte d’Ivoire know that they have the virus, according to data from the Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (CIPHIA) survey led by ICAP in 2017-18. This means the country must bridge a significant gap in order to achieve...
(New York Times) ICAP’s Wafaa El-Sadr on Universal “Test and Treat” for HIV
Imagine that 90 percent of all people living with HIV were diagnosed and treated with drugs. Would that be sufficient to end the AIDS epidemic? Scientists tried to answer the question in three enormous studies published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of...