A new study suggests that HIV infected patients should start antiretroviral treatment earlier. Here’s the editor’s note accompanying the article in today’s online version of the Lancet: “When to start antiretroviral treatment has been a problem for physicians dealing with patients with HIV infection. Most commonly the decision is based on CD4 counts, […]
The meeting in Beijing last week of health ministers from high-burden MDR and XDR TB countries has produced some significant results, at least on paper. Perhaps most notably, participants “committed to help mobilize $2 billion needed over the next two years to adequately finance the TB and M/XDR-TB response from both domestic and international resources […]
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 […]