ICAP Symposium on HIV at CUMC

For those interested in how HIV funding may be used to better healthcare systems as a whole, this is very relevant to the HIV topic we discussed last year:

Country directors for the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Program (ICAP) of the Mailman School of Public Health will be meeting on the CUMC campus next week. In conjunction with their visit, ICAP is hosting a symposium,"Expansion of HIV Care in Africa: A Path for Better Health Services for All?" The goal of the symposium is to examine how the scale-up of HIV services has the potential to spur a transformation of healthcare systems with benefits for all patients, not only those who are HIV positive.

 

Linda Fried, MD, MPH, dean of the Mailman School, will make opening remarks.

The program will include presentations by Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, ICAP director, and the following country directors:

 

- Raphael Ntumy, ICAP-Lesotho country director

"Moving from MTCT-Plus toHealth Systems Strengthening in Lesotho"

 

- Amy Cunningham, ICAP-Tanzania country director

 "Bolstering Health Systems through HIV-related Laboratory and Infrastructure Improvements in Tanzania"

 

 

- Zenebe Melaku, ICAP-Ethiopia country director 

"HIV/AIDS: A Catalyst for Establishing New Cadres of Health Workers in Ethiopia"

 

A panel discussion will be moderated by ICAP's David Hoos and Pamela

Collins, assistant professor of clinical epidemiology and clinical psychiatry at the Mailman School.

 

 

When:  Tuesday, November 11

       3 to 5 p.m.

Where: Alumni Auditorium

       630 W. 168th St.

 

All faculty, staff, and students are invited.

Reception will follow.