A week at AIDS 2026 in Rio: fourteen ICAP and ICAP-related posters, a satellite on advanced HIV disease with Maureen Syowai, a workshop on key population-sensitive models supported by Dr. Cassia Wells, plus partner meetings. #AIDS2026 📌
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From the AIDS 2026 poster hall in Rio: eight posters from ICAP and ICAP-related work on days 3 and 4, including active case finding for children living with HIV in Rwanda, cryptococcal meningitis screening in Western Province, Zambia, and the GeneXpert network in South Sudan. #AIDS2026 📌
This week in Accra, Ghana’s National AIDS Control Program is hosting an Ethiopian delegation for a 3-day CQUIN-supported learning visit on HIV program quality monitoring and management. The delegation will explore Ghana’s approach and identify lessons for adaptation in Ethiopia.
At #AIDS2026, ICAP’s Maureen Syowai, CQUIN Program Director, joined global health leaders for an IAS session on ending preventable deaths from advanced HIV disease and strengthening early identification and care.
The lesson emerging from successive #Ebola outbreaks is that #trust must be recognized as a #publichealth intervention, write ICAP’s Tafadzwa Dzinamarira & colleagues. #DRC #globalhealth #columbiapublichealth Columbia University https://ow.ly/m5R550ZuGYL
Seven posters from ICAP and ICAP-related work on day 2 of #AIDS2026, including facility-led continuous quality improvement in Cameroon’s Far North, where facility teams find and fix their own bottlenecks. 📌
AIDS 2026 is open in Rio 🇧🇷 The 26th International AIDS Conference kicked off tonight — the global HIV community together under one theme: Rethink. Rebuild. Rise. ICAP is here all week. #AIDS2026 #RethinkRebuildRise
Join ICAP at #AIDS2026! Our team will participate in satellite sessions, present posters, facilitate workshops, and share insights from our work around the world.
Join ICAP and @NYCPRI for Ebola 2026: New Outbreak, New Challenges, a special webinar looking at the #Ebola #epidemic, the #globalhealth threat it poses, and efforts to contain it. Register: https://ow.ly/xfIZ50ZelEl
Preliminary results of the Democratic Republic of Congo Population-based #HIV Impact Assessment (CODPHIA 2024) were released on Jun 15 during a meeting with partners including the DRC ministry of health, #CDC, and ICAP. https://phia.icap.columbia.edu/countries/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/
Dialing In: Current Evidence and Emerging Frontiers of Mobile Phone Surveys in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Join ICAP Tuesday, June 16, 9-10am (ET) for this Grand Rounds webinar exploring the latest advances in using #mobile #phones for surveys in #LMIC. Register: https://ow.ly/qZ9Q50ZaEW2
Nakuru County Referral and Teaching Hospital (NCRTH) hosted a delegation from ICAP in #Kenya for strategic engagement aimed at strengthening collaboration in #publichealth programming, laboratory systems, disease surveillance and #healthcare workforce development. https://ow.ly/bsLL50ZaEIN
Can a mobile phone app increase #PrEP adherence and self-testing among women at risk for #HIV? ICAP researchers explore this important question in a new study just published in JMIR Publications https://formative.jmir.org/2026/1/e86407
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Adherence and HIV Self-Testing App Among Women in the South Bronx: 12-Month Usability, Acceptability, and Feasibility Study
Background: HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is underused by cis- and transgender women despite a significant HIV burden. Smartphone technologies are promising tools to support HIV prevention but have yet to be assessed in women. Objective: We conducted a 12-month feasibility study to assess the use and acceptability of a mobile phone app, SmartPrEP, designed to support PrEP adherence and HIV self- and partner-testing among women living in an area of elevated HIV burden in New York City. Methods: Nonpregnant adult cisgender and transgender women who met US PrEP eligibility criteria and...
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As the #Ebola crisis mounts, ICAP experts are training laboratory technicians in Bunia, #DRC to ensure safe handling of samples from suspected cases, and secure waste managemnt. On a single day this week, out of 46 samples collected, 27 were tested and 18 were #BundiBigyo positive.
ICAP's Susan Michaels-Strasser of Columbia University discusses #Ebola with The Associated Press https://ow.ly/fu5v50Z2TbY #globalhealth #infectiousdisease #pandemicpreparedness
The world is more at risk of a #pandemic now than before #COVID, experts say. ICAP's Jessica Justman of Columbia University comments on the significance of deadly outbreaks of #hantavirus and #Ebola in @scientificamerican.bsky.social #globalhealth #preparedness #CDC #WHO https://ow.ly/NFIj50Z2lCg
The world is more at risk of a pandemic now than before COVID, experts say. This is why
As world health leaders face deadly outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola, a major pandemic preparedness report finds we are less safe from viral outbreaks than before COVID
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ICAP joins the world in celebrating nurses on #internationalnursesday . Read this message by ICAP's Susan Michaels-Strasser honoring these courageous and dedicated professionals who do so much to keep individuals, families, and communities healthy and safe. https://ow.ly/ckPE50YX0wp
Today is Mother's Day in much of the world. At ICAP, mothers are and have always been a priority. Read ICAP Director Wafaa El-Sadr's Mother's Day message here: https://ow.ly/gEAb50YX0uE #globalhealth #mothersday
Join ICAP for a Grand Rounds webinar - A Threat Anywhere is a Threat Everywhere: Perspectives from the Global Health Security Frontlines. Tues. May 12, 9-10 (ET). Register: https://ow.ly/N8qh50YWGxc
Several dedicated professionals working at ICAP's New York headquarters were honored yesterday by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Congratulations to these tireless champions for healthy people, empowered communities, thriving societies around the world. #globalhealth
From #antimicrobialresistance in #Ukraine to #Ebola in #SierraLeone, #epidemic surveillance in #SouthSudan to training field epidemiologists in #Armenia and #Azerbaijan, ICAP is working around the world to improve #globalhealthsecurity. #columbiapublichealth #CDC https://ow.ly/JAVs50YGIjs?
Across the Globe, ICAP Works to Protect Communities from Major Health Threats
Across several countries, ICAP is working to strengthen global health security, building health system capacity and outbreak preparedness.
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ICAP is proud to support National Public Health Week 2026, inviting a renewed commitment to strengthening the systems, science, and community partnerships that keep the world healthy. . #NPHW #columbiapublic health #globalhealth
ICAP is completing 3 weeks of Public Health Emergency Preparedness Response & Recovery training in West & Southern Africa to develop surge capacity in line with the One Health approach. Working with @CDC, ICAP has trained over 60 public health professionals across 18 countries.
ICAP is proud to partner with #CDC, #Kazakhstan & Georgia to train healthcare workers in #infection #prevention & control https://ow.ly/cFRO50YzgN4 And read more here: https://bit.ly/41qrmo6 #GlobalHealth
Folks in #Tajikistan can now order an express #HIV test online & receive it free of charge & anonymously. The hivtest.tj -- funded by the #TheGlobalFund -- was developed with support from ICAP & aims to improve access to testing, especially in remote areas. https://ow.ly/rtoW50YwP4G
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Moses Bateganya as Deputy Director, Technical for the CQUIN Learning Network. We’re excited to have him join the network and help guide CQUIN’s technical work. Join us in welcoming Moses to the CQUIN team. #GlobalHealth #HIV #HealthSystems #CQUIN
Can primary care programs be support people living with #HIV? ICAP's Wafaa El-Sadr & Joey Platt examine "The Promise of Integration of HIV Into Primary Care: Challenges and Opportunities" in the Journal of the International AIDS Society. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jia2.70093
On this International Women’s Day, ICAP celebrates the role of women in global health -- from reasearchers to healthcare workers to advocates to the women we serve and partner with in pursuit of a healthier world for all . #IWD2026 #GiveToGain #globalhealth
ICAP researchers publish "HIV care cascades among refugees and host communities in Uganda: findings from two population-based surveys" in @thelancet.com #HIV, #CDC #PEPFAR www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
HIV care cascades among refugees and host communities in Uganda: findings from two population-based surveys
Refugee populations in Uganda had comparable HIV care cascade outcomes to the general population. Although HIV prevalence differed substantially, both groups showed similar progress towards treatment ...
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