Recency
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...
Apr 22, 2022 | News
In Eswatini, key surveillance data on recent HIV infections is providing a roadmap to drive epidemic response efforts to those who especially need them – young women and adolescent girls. The Eswatini HIV-1 Recent Infection Surveillance (EHRIS) program – part of ICAP...
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...
Feb 25, 2020 | News
ICAP has kicked off a series of technical trainings across Lesotho to build a cadre of HIV counselors and testing officers well-versed in using innovative HIV recent infection testing technologies as part of the national response to the HIV epidemic. Expanded use of...
Dec 13, 2018 | In the Media, 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...
