GENEVA – Staff from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Global Affairs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and USAID made it here despite the current U.S. government office shutdown, and are participating in the 142nd World Health Organization Executive Board session, which kicked off today at WHO headquarters in […]
In the wake of reports that the Department of Health and Human Services issued recent “style guidelines” advising agency staffers crafting budget proposals to avoid certain words, it was a comfort to note that at least when funding fails altogether, the wording is wide open . . . The “situation” For the Department itself, the […]
HIV
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
In a hospital serving an urban population, more than a third of patients with a confirmed TB diagnosis also had HIV. Of those, nearly three quarters […]
Research & Development
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
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, […]