ICAP

Panama

Panama

Panama’s HIV epidemic still has gaps along the HIV prevention and care cascade, making it difficult for the country to reach the UNAIDS 95-95-95 goals. High rates of infection among vulnerable populations such as men who have sex with men and transgender women have significantly complicated the HIV epidemic in Panama in recent years, and the large influx of migrants fleeing the crisis in Venezuela has exacerbated the situation. ICAP is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Ministry of Health, President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) implementers, and civil society groups. These partnerships aim to improve current practices and to fast-track local capacity to meet national, PEPFAR, and UNAIDS goals by implementing innovative, effective, and comprehensive capacity-building strategies that strengthen service delivery and human resources for health.

Projects

Programmatic Support Award (PSA)

  • Multi-Country,
  • current
Building on over 15 years of partnership between ICAP at Columbia University, PEPFAR, and CDC, the Programmatic Support Award provides rapid, flexible technical support to accelerate evidence-based HIV prevention and treatment program implementation and align health systems strengthening activities. ...

Tracking with Recency Assays to Control the Epidemic (TRACE)

  • Multi-Country,
  • current
Disease surveillance to stop HIV transmission in its tracks. Remarkable progress has been made toward HIV epidemic control in some high-burden countries, but many gaps remain. Identifying people with undiagnosed HIV infection, especially those who have been recently infected, is essential to realize the individual benefit of rapid treatment initiation and to prevent HIV transmission to others. ...

ICAP in Panama

Program Start
  • 2021
Technical Areas
  • HIV Care and Treatment
  • HIV Testing and Counseling
  • Recency Testing
  • PrEP
  • QI / QA
Current Funders
  • CDC/PEPFAR

Regional Director

Ricardo Mendizabal, MPH

Ricardo Mendizabel leads ICAP’s team, providing technical support in this region on HIV prevention, diagnosis, and care. Prior to this role, Ricardo worked on other PEPFAR-supported projects in Latin America, including the implementation of national HIV drug resistance surveys. Ricardo is from Guatemala. He holds a Masters in Public Health with emphasis in epidemiology from Universidad Rafael Landivar.

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