The Senate will be crucial in the coming weeks as it considers the massive cuts in global health spending for fiscal year (FY) 2011, which the House is poised to pass late Friday. The Senate will also be the key to any effort to increase or even protect current funding for global health programs in […]
In the second of a two-part series with TB and HIV experts at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, John Donnelly speaks with Dr. Peter Small, who runs the tuberculosis program at the Gates Foundation, regarding his thoughts on recent developments in the field of TB control and treatment, including the promise of the Gene Xpert rapid TB diagnostic tool. Dr. Small is a member of the Stop TB Partnership’s Coordinating Board, has done extensive research in the genetic variability of tuberculosis, and is a global expert in TB epidemiology, biology and control.
HIV
Oct. 7, 2017 SAN DIEGO – Dr. Edsel Salvaña has two posters in the exhibit hall here, each one carrying terrible news from the Philippines, that, […]
Tuberculosis
GUADALAJARA, Mexico – For all the emphasis on new tuberculosis treatments and repurposed drugs to meet the World Health Organization’s End TB goals at the Union […]
Research & Development
Report gives evidence that neurological impacts of Zika go beyond effects on brain development By the time pediatric pathologists explored the cases reported in the August […]
Policy
Projections based on current burdens of disease, along with data from the preceding 26 years, show both vast inequalities of progress, as well as the likelihood […]