TB was all the talk on Capitol Hill Thursday. The Global Health Council and the American Thoracic Society, among other groups, helped to orchestrate two fantastic briefings on TB, just as the WHO is set to release some alarming new data about TB-HIV co-infection. “We’re really at a crossroads” with TB, said Diana […]
Here’s a blog dispatch from the Center’s Christine Lubinski: In Washington today, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa announced a groundbreaking partnership to establish an international research center on HIV/TB co-infection. The initiative will also focus on training a new generation of scientists in Africa. The creation […]
HIV
With a matter-of-fact and unanimous approval of the PEPFAR Extension Act of 2018, a five-year renewal of the U.S. flagship program to combat HIV globally, the […]
Tuberculosis
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – New results from the ongoing Nix-TB trial continue to confirm a short-course treatment regimen of bedaquiline – one of the two newest […]
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 report on outcomes of measles elimination efforts released last week by the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows, […]