U.S. politicians continue to speak out boldly in favor of increased global AIDS and health funding. Last week, 100 House members joined Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) in sending a letter to President Obama encouraging him to make a three-year commitment of at least $6 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This […]
What we’re reading this week has arrived. All comments welcome. A post at the Blog 4 Global Health from the Global Health Council discusses male circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy that is already tested and ready for use. Male circumcision reduces HIV transmission by as much as nearly 60%. At the Huffington Post, Isobel […]
HIV
Since the president’s Feb. 5 State of the Union address pledge to end transmissions of HIV in the United States in the next 10 years, and […]
Tuberculosis
CHICAGO – To find the missing tuberculosis cases that go unreported each year, national TB programs will have to reach out to the places where the […]
Research & Development
A trial to test the safety of, and immune response prompted by, the latest candidate for a vaccine to protect against Zika virus infection has begun […]
Policy
The following is a guest post by Emily Weaver, PhD, of MEASURE Evaluation Health projects and donors in low-resource countries increasingly aim to leverage existing data […]