One of the most important scientific HIV/AIDS conferences will open next week in San Francisco—the 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. You can get news from this invitation-only event here at Science Speaks, as well as at www.aidsmap.com, which will be providing in-depth coverage of the conference. Science Speaks will have updates on the new HIV/AIDS science presented at CROI, as well as associated policy implications of new approaches to HIV treatment, prevention and care.
HIV
Study: Anxiety, depression can lengthen delay between HIV “test and treat”
Living with severe depression or an anxiety disorder can have a similar impact on patients’ promptness in seeking care following an HIV diagnosis as living far […]
Tuberculosis
Study finds more than 80 percent of patients needing WHO recommended last resort treatment for drug-resistant TB not getting it
Roughly four years after the World Health Organization recommended that the newest drugs against tuberculosis be made available to patients for whom they represented a last […]
Research & Development
WHO report on global antibiotic resistance highlights growing threats in the face of surveillance gaps
Surveillance data from 22 countries show some of the world’s most common and potentially deadly infections gaining ground globally against the antibiotics used to treat them, […]
Policy
Modeling tool tells when pairing responses to “big three” and neglected diseases is a win-win
The idea of pairing responses to diseases found in the global south that are so neglected that they are classified by that word with the better-funded, […]
