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, […]