HIV care and treatment
Mar 6, 2019 | Stories from the Field
Eight years ago, when Alzira was 15, she found out that she was HIV positive. If she had been diagnosed today, she would have started antiretroviral therapy (ART) right away, in accordance with WHO “Treat All” guidelines and national policy in Mozambique. But eight...
Feb 7, 2019 | In the Media, News
The UN strategy is a global one that aims to have most people living with HIV diagnosed and on antiretroviral treatment by 2020, and to maintain suppression of the virus until 2030. If that happens, the number of new infections and transmissions globally would be so...
Dec 10, 2018 | News
ICAP at Columbia University has received funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to expand a novel HIV testing method that promises to advance efforts for the prevention and...
Dec 4, 2018 | In the Media, News
For global-health professionals, the successful war on HIV/AIDS is a model to emulate when targeting other hard-to-contain pandemics. But as Columbia University’s Elizabeth Radin notes, the biggest obstacles to overcoming public-health crises are usually political,...
Nov 13, 2018 | In the Media, News
“The world’s ability to tame tuberculosis and noncommunicable diseases like diabetes and hypertension will hinge on the quality of prevention and treatment strategies,” write authors Elizabeth Radin, Miriam Rabkin, and Wafaa El-Sadr. “In...