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
From 2016 to 2017, 14% of people living with HIV in the United States did something to save money on the out-of-pocket costs of their prescription […]
Tuberculosis
Combatting MDR TB: Year three – Released four years ago, the federal National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis raised hopes that targets and strategies would […]
Research & Development
This year marks the close of a dynamic decade in global infectious disease research and responses that changed expectations of what humanity can accomplish toward making […]
Policy
Wuhan City in the Hubei Province of the People’s Republic of China is on the Yangtze River and is the most populous city in central China. […]