What should an integrated TB-HIV clinic look like? I got the answer when I recently visited the Ubuntu Clinic near Cape Town, South Africa, in a township called Khayelitsha. Thanks to the IAS 2009 conference I had a chance to take some photos and meet the dedicated personnel. The Ubuntu Clinic, a collaboration effort begun in […]
HIV
Steeped in inequities that include formidable barriers to basic health services for multitudes of its most vulnerable, marginalized and neglected people, the country leading global HIV […]
Tuberculosis
In the six weeks before South Africa responded its first diagnoses of COVID-19 with the start of physical distancing measures, more than 47,000 people on average […]
Research & Development
With 2018 data showing highest incidence acute flaccid myelitis since monitoring began, officials say awareness, recognition of rare life threatening condition will be crucial to early […]
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, […]