Many details of the Obama Administration’s Global Health Initiative are still murky, and it’s unclear just when we will learn more. In the meantime, the Global Health Council has launched a little Internet information hub about the GHI, with relevant documents, media coverage, and other related info. It’s at least a good starting point to sort out what we know, and what we don’t, about the six-year $63 billion plan. Check it out here. You can also get another perspective on the GHI–and how it should be framed and funded–here.
HIV
Communication was Dr. Manasseh Phiri’s prescription for infectious diseases
Dr. Manasseh Phiri was working at the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia when I met him 10 years ago, although his days as a […]
Tuberculosis
Xpert testing to find TB in people with advanced HIV at diagnosis saves lives, study finds
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
STREAM Trial: Nine-month regimen for drug-resistant tuberculosis brings “promising cure rates”
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
WHO: Measles cases up worldwide from this time last year
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 […]
