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
The tale of two global HIV responses continues to unfold this week, in data released by UNAIDS in the run-up to the 22nd International AIDS Conference […]
Tuberculosis
Medicine represents third choice over “deaf or dead” for many patients, health worker/tuberculosis survivor-founded organization says Praising the treatment policy decision of South Africa health officials […]
Research & Development
Tools to diagnose and monitor HIV, hepatitis B and C, and tuberculosis, as well as resistance to first-line TB treatment are among the tests included in […]
Policy
The following is a guest post by By Jackie Hellen, MPH of MEASURE Evaluation Community workers and program managers work tirelessly to control HIV at the local […]