The first female condom was a flop. Now a second version is making its debut around the globe. It remains to be seen whether this new and improved protection–the FC2–will prove more successful at empowering women to ward off HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Click here for an interesting AP story on […]
Last week we posted an item about Burma facing a severe shortage of TB drugs next year unless emergency funding is secured. Today, there’s news that Uganda may be in an even worse situation. In northern Uganda, the lack of drugs—for HIV as well as TB—is already causing serious concern. Dr Paul Onek, director of […]
HIV
The goals of controlling HIV sound like a straight forward series of three consecutive steps, one following another, when discussed in global and domestic epidemic-ending plans. […]
Tuberculosis
The announcement Wednesday of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of pretomanid, a new tuberculosis drug that has been part of a ground-breaking treatment regimen against […]
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 a report showing that 2018 yielded the highest case numbers seen so far of a paralyzing condition largely among children who had been sick with […]