The following post is by The Global Center’s Christine Lubinski, reporting from the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna. Michel Sidibe, Director of UNAIDS, and Marcos Espinal, Director of the STOP TB Partnership, signed a memorandum of understanding at a TB/HIV symposium today, pledging to join forces to reduce the human toll of HIV/TB co-infection. […]
The following post is by HIVMA Executive Director Andrea Weddle, reporting from the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna. In another late breaker session Thursday, French researcher Blanc presented data supporting early initiation of HIV treatment for patients co-infected with HIV/TB and suggesting it could reduce deaths in co-infected patients by 33 percent. The results […]
The following post is by HIVMA Executive Director Andrea Weddle. She is on location in Vienna, reporting from the 18th International AIDS Conference. South African researcher Meyer-Rath presented compelling data on the cost effectiveness of treating infants early in South Africa at an IAS 2010 late breaker session on Thursday. The findings were based on […]
This post is by the Global Center’s Christine Lubinski, reporting from the International AIDS Conference in Vienna. This is a summary of a report released at a session on Thursday by E. Odoyo-June and colleagues. Kisumu is the third largest city in Kenya and was the site of one of the three critical clinical trials […]
Vienna — “Today, only 4.1 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS are screened for TB,” said RESULTS Executive Director Joanne Carter during a press conference Wednesday at IAS 2010. “And this is despite TB being the most likely infection to kill [HIV infected persons.]” “Failure to provide this screening is malpractice on the grandest scale,” […]
HIV
As the federal Ending the HIV epidemic takes form, experts talk details, challenges: “How do we get there from here?” WASHINGTON, DC – Nearly four decades […]
Tuberculosis
But with a $3.3 billion shortfall in funding, gaps in treatment and prevention among the most vulnerable still take 4,000 lives a day For the first […]
Research & Development
While a World Health Organization-led strategy aims to provide 1.4 billion doses of vaccine against yellow fever to achieve 80% vaccination coverage across countries by 2026 […]
Policy
A natural death: The political battlefield of infections and migrant children’s bodies – Tracing the events surrounding the death of eight-year-old Felipe Alonso Gomez in U.S. […]