Today the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) hosted a webcast featuring global health experts discussing the President Obama’s fiscal year 2013 budget proposal and what it means for global health. In particular, panelists attempted to address the implications of the President’s proposed cut of $542.9 million from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in [...]
A study of heterosexual couples in several sub-Saharan African countries found that the amount of HIV virus in an infected person’s blood is the major determinant of whether or not they will pass the virus on to their uninfected sexual partners. Published today in The Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID), the article “Determinants of Per-Coital-Act [...]
“First he stopped eating, then later he got a fever… the doctor said it was just a virus going around, but then his soft spot got swollen and I remembered the same thing happened to my daughter when she was diagnosed with meningitis at six months,” Myra said, speaking to a group of childhood TB [...]