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
The tale of two global HIV responses continues to unfold this week, in data released by UNAIDS in the run-up to the 22nd International AIDS Conference […]
Tuberculosis
New, more effective medicines replace painful, daily shots, drugs causing psychosis, permanent hearing loss; TB and medical communities welcome change, say recommended drugs must be accessible, affordable […]
Research & Development
A trial to test the safety of, and immune response prompted by, the latest candidate for a vaccine to protect against Zika virus infection has begun […]
Policy
The following is a guest post by By Jackie Hellen, MPH of MEASURE Evaluation Community workers and program managers work tirelessly to control HIV at the local […]