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ICAP was founded in 2004 at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Now a global leader in HIV/AIDS services, ICAP has supported work at more than 1,200 sites across 21 countries around the world. More than one million people have received HIV services through ICAP-supported programs.
ICAP News
ICAP Director Wafaa El-Sadr Discusses Treatment as Prevention with NPR
Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr spoke with NPR's WNYC to discuss what Science magazine called the breakthrough of the year—the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 052. The study found that providing early antiretroviral treatment to an HIV-infected person can reduce the risk of sexual transmission of HIV to an uninfected partner by as much as 96 percent. Eric Goosby, United States Global AIDS Coordinator, and Brian Williams, an AIDS epidemiologist in South Africa, also commented on the study's implications. Read or listen to the story>>
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NEW: ICAP's Grand Rounds Webinar Series Schedule
ICAP is pleased to announce the first half of this year's ICAP Webinar Grand Rounds Series. Webinars will feature guest lecturers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, ICAP at Columbia University, and the Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program at Columbia University. View the schedule>>
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Swaziland Conducts First National HIV Incidence Survey
For 27-year old Nomsa, a house visit from a SHIMS counselor not only confirmed what she had thought for over two years – that she was HIV positive – but gave her the assistance she needed to get help and to take care of her HIV infection.
Nomsa is one of more than 18,000 people who have received HIV testing through SHIMS—the Swaziland HIV Incidence Measurement Survey. Sponsored by the Swaziland Ministry of Health and supported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and ICAP at Columbia University, SHIMS is the first large-scale, population-level study to attempt to define rates of new HIV infections and it is taking place in the context of an accelerated expansion of HIV prevention, care, and treatment activities. Read more in the ICAP December Newsletter>>
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Students: Take Your Education Abroad
ICAP’s Next Generation Program provides students with an opportunity to develop their skills working side-by-side with global health experts in New York and around the world. During the internship, students spend two to six months engaged in the design, implementation and evaluation of ICAP-supported programs. Find out more about ICAP’s Next Generation Program.
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Featured Resources
Sponsored by ICAP, Columbia University, the August 2011 JAIDS Supplement entitled "Bridging the Divide"includes authors from diverse disciplines and countries who address timely issues in the global HIV Response. Guest Editors include: Wafaa El-Sadr, ICAP, Columbia University; Miriam Rabkin, ICAP, Columbia University; Rifat Atun, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria; Kevin De Cock, Center For Global Health, CDC.
“Creating Hope: The Story of the MTCT-Plus Initiative”
When the MTCT-Plus Initiative at ICAP was conceived in 2000, common wisdom suggested that HIV treatment wasn’t feasible in resource-constrained settings. The MTCT-Plus Initiative was one of the first multi-country programs to counter the fallacy of these assumptions by supporting programs that were able to successfully deliver high quality, family-focused HIV care and treatment in Africa and Asia. A series of interviews with key individuals who were involved in the conception and implementation of this program are included in this narrative report entitled, “Creating Hope.”Adolescent HIV Care and Treatment: A Training Curriculum for Multidisciplinary Health Care Teams is a comprehensive training package developed for the Zambian Ministry of Health (MoH). It aims to build program and multidisciplinary health care worker capacity to deliver comprehensive, youth-friendly HIV care and treatment services to adolescents living with HIV and their caregivers.
- Webcast of Debate Six: "Treatment as Prevention"
ICAP Director Wafaa El-Sadr was a panelist on the debate "Treatment as Prevention" hosted by The World Bank and USAIDS on November 10. The debate featured expert panelists arguing for and against the proposition: "Countries should spend a majority of what is likely to be a flat or even declining HIV prevention budget on 'treatment as prevention." 
- WATCH: Wafaa El-Sadr, Lance Armstrong, Paul Farmer, Sanjay Gupta, and Lawrence Shulmandiscuss prevention and treatment of noncommunicable diseases at Columbia University's World Leaders Forum on September 19.