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
To control the global health threat of HIV by 2030, according to UNAIDS, these goals must be reached by 2020: To diagnose 90 percent of all […]
Tuberculosis
In sub-Saharan Africa where the odds of dying within a year of starting treatment for HIV can still hover close to one-in-10, diagnosing and treating TB […]
Research & Development
A randomized, multi-country clinical trial testing a regimen for treating drug-resistant tuberculosis in less than a year against the up to two-year regimen recommended by the […]
Policy
With more than 112,000 cases of measles reported by 170 countries so far this year, the world is seeing rising rates of a vaccine-preventable illness over […]