COVID-19

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...

Screening and Diagnosis of COVID-19 – A Training Toolkit

Aug 21, 2020

This toolkit was developed by ICAP to provide training to health care providers (primarily physicians and nurses) who are involved in the frontline clinical management of COVID-19 patients in a resource limited setting.These training modules focus on recognition of...

Quantifying early COVID-19 outbreak transmission in South Africa and exploring vaccine efficacy scenarios

Jul 24, 2020

Mukandavire Z, Nyabadza F, Malunguza NJ, Cuadros DF, Shiri T, Musuka G (2020) PLoS ONE 15(7): e0236003. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236003   Abstract The emergence and fast global spread of COVID-19 has presented one of the greatest public health...

Special Webinar (Archived Recording) – Phylogeny and COVID-19: Shedding light on origin and transmission of SARS-CoV-2

Jul 22, 2020

RECORDED: Wednesday, July 22, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EDT   Moderator: Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA Global Director ICAP at Columbia University Panelists: Bette Korber, PhD Laboratory Fellow and Scientist, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Los Alamos National...