COVID-19

Maintaining robust HIV and TB services in the COVID-19 era: A public health dilemma in Zimbabwe

Sep 23, 2020

 Mukwenha S., Dzinamarira T., Mugurungi O., Musuka G. International Journal of Infectcious Disease 2020 Sept 23: DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.09.1425 Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has challenged health systems worldwide. In Zimbabwe, the...

Safeguarding gains in the Sexual and Reproductive Health and AIDS Response amidst COVID-19: The Role of African Civil Society

Sep 10, 2020

Eghtessadi R, Mukandavire Z, Mutenherwa F, Cuadros D, Musuka G. Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Sep 10:S1201-9712(20)30725-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.08.086. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32920231.   Abstract We outline the role of African Civil Society in safeguarding...

What One Pandemic Can Teach Us in Facing Another

Sep 4, 2020

El-Sadr,W AIDS 34(12) doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002636 Experiencing two concomitant pandemics is unprecedented. Although attention has shifted to COVID-19, I fear we risk forgetting that the HIV pandemic still affects millions of people. We risk turning our attention...

Data-Driven HIV Programming to Maximize Health Benefits

Sep 1, 2020

Ruanne V.B., & Van Rooyen, H. Lancet HIV 2020 doi.org/10.1016/ S2352-3018(20)30235-6 The Bukoba Combination Prevention Evaluation (BCPE), an ICAP-supported research activity in Tanzania, was mentioned as as a best practice in a published Comment in the August 2020...

COVID-19 Response in Zimbabwe: A Call for Urgent Scale-up of Testing to Meet National Capacity

Aug 31, 2020

 Dzinamarira T., Mukwenha S., Eghtessadi R., Cuadros D.F., Mhlanga G., & Musuka G. (2020) Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020 doi: 10.1093/5899551   Abstract Control of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) heavily relies on universal access to testing to...