During IAS 2010 in Vienna, UNITAID’s Ellen ‘t Hoen gave a plenary presentation on the organization’s new Medicines Patent Pool Initiative, a project that began to take shape in 2008. Hoen leads the program, which aims to lower the cost of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis drugs by working with pharmaceutical companies to allow generic production […]
HIV
Once outbreak was recognized, program put in place reduced number of ongoing transmissions, modeling shows In 2015, when 181 of rural Scott County, Indiana’s 24,000 residents […]
Tuberculosis
SYDNEY – When Merinda Sebayang was undergoing treatment for multidrug-resistant TB in Indonesia – a nation with the third highest tuberculosis burden in the world after […]
Research & Development
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
The following is a guest post by Ruth Ashton of MEASURE Evaluation CHAPEL HILL, NC―A new study released today in the Lancet’s eClinicalMedicine shows that routine […]