As we mentioned in this post yesterday, there was a certain degree of hubbub about a “major policy speech” by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and what insights it might provide into the administration’s approach to foreign aid. Alas, Clinton’s speech wasn’t so major after all, at least when it comes to global health issues. Here’s the […]
Dr. Kenneth Mayer, co-chair of the Center’s Scientific Advisory Committee and a professor of medicine at Brown University, talked about the benefits of using PEPFAR as a platform on which to build broader health systems in this NPR story that aired this morning. NPR’s Brenda Wilson takes a look at President Obama’s global health plan, […]
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 […]