HIV care and treatment
Aug 25, 2020 | News, Stories from the Field
On July 23, 2020, ICAP in Nigeria initiated its first virtual trainings to build local expertise in the testing of blood specimens from clients testing HIV positive for the first time to help understand the trajectory of the HIV epidemic in real-time. Identifying...
Jul 8, 2020 | In the Media, News
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, global director of ICAP at Columbia University, is part of an international group of experts convened by UNAIDS to set the next generation of goals for the global AIDS response. This group presented the process, main results, and next...
Jun 24, 2020 | News
For patients attending medication-assisted therapy (MAT) sites in the Kyrgyz Republic, taking home more than a three-day supply of methadone usually requires meeting eligibility criteria set by the Ministry of Health. For example, the client should be on MAT for at...
Jun 22, 2020 | News
As countries in sub-Saharan Africa race against the clock to ready public health systems before an expected surge of COVID-19 cases, ICAP in Nigeria is helping over 49,000 people living with HIV to maintain stable supply lines of HIV anti-retroviral therapy (ART)...
Apr 27, 2020 | Stories from the Field
Before multi-month scripting (MMS) became a norm at the Dessie Referal hospital, Aderaw Wegene, a construction worker, would spend money, time, and resources going back and forth between his field placements and the hospital to get his monthly ART refills. “I was...