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 following is a guest post by Maureen Luba Milambe, African Regional Advocacy Advisor, AVAC On Tuesday (June 8), the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to […]
Tuberculosis
The publication of trial data showing a four-month treatment regimen for tuberculosis that is not resistant to first-line medicines as effective as the currently widely prescribed […]
Research & Development
By Mitchell Warren, executive director, AVAC In February 2020, just as the COVID pandemic began its rapid global spread, a major HIV vaccine trial called HVTN […]
Policy
By Karen Carvajal, M.D. Over the course of human history we have come a long way in our fight against the threat of infectious diseases and, […]