United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on donor countries to increase funding for HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria programs on Monday. That kind of spending is a “true recovery package,” he said, according to a news digest from the Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report. Ban said the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria […]
The scientific search for an AIDS vaccine will get a nice lift, in the form of a $100 million gift from Massachusetts businessman Phillip Ragon. The funds will go to a new institute that hopes to harness the combined brain power of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University, […]
HIV
Progress seen in recent years against the HIV pandemic, including in rising numbers of people diagnosed and treated accompanied by dropping rates of incidence and death, […]
Tuberculosis
SYDNEY – When Merinda Sebayang was undergoing treatment for multidrug-resistant TB in Indonesia – a nation with the third highest tuberculosis burden in the world after […]
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 a report showing that 2018 yielded the highest case numbers seen so far of a paralyzing condition largely among children who had been sick with […]