This post is by Global Center Director Christine Lubinski, who is attending the Conference on Opportunistic Infections and Retroviruses (CROI) this week in San Francisco. This is her first post; check back regularly for her blogs throughout the conference. The opening plenary of this leading HIV scientific conference—titled “Guiding the Global Response”—highlighted efforts to model the […]
There’s fresh evidence out today that greater access to AIDS treatment for women will help keep their babies healthy. A new article in Clinical Infectious Diseases reports that a higher maternal viral load during the 30th week of pregnancy significantly increased the risk of HIV transmission to the baby—a finding that provides additional confirmation of […]
HIV
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Tuberculosis
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Research & Development
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Policy
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