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Mar 19, 2024 | News, Stories from the Field
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, international public health experts knew the country and its neighbors would soon face an invisible crisis in addition to the destruction and mass casualties of war: the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)....
Jun 15, 2023 | News, Stories from the Field
In the past decade, the Philippines has experienced the fastest growing rate of new HIV infections in Southeast Asia, registering an increase of over 400 percent in daily incidence between 2012 and 2023. In 2019, as a part of a bigger push to address this problem, the...
Dec 26, 2022 | News
Last November, the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and ICAP at Columbia University donated laboratory equipment to seven HIV testing facilities in Regions 6 and 7 in the Philippines....
Nov 28, 2022 | News
On 27 October 2022, the government of Ethiopia recognized the continuing work of ICAP at Columbia University to support the ongoing efforts to control malaria in the country, with funding from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) through the President’s...
Jun 26, 2022 | Stories from the Field
At the Mbabane Regional Hospital HIV clinic in Eswatini, Bongiwe Matsebula, RN, nurse, and ICAP surveillance officer fills out an online screening form for a patient. Machawe Nkwanyana, the patient, is a 27-year-old man eager to know his COVID-19 status. Even though...
