HIV care and treatment
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...
Sep 18, 2018 | News
Recognizing that antiretroviral therapy (ART) “keeps people living with HIV alive, healthier and reduces the risk of transmitting the virus to partners,” the World Health Organization in 2015 recommended that anyone infected with HIV should begin ART as soon after...