The Center’s Christine Lubinski and Rabita Aziz describe visits to ZAMSTAR’s TB programs in Livingstone and Lusaka, Zambia, during a recent Congressional delegate trip to Africa. Performers dressed in bright green ZAMSTAR uniforms sing louder and clap harder as a large crowd gathers around their truck. Another performer exuberantly walks around in front of the audience […]
There are remaining openings for fee-bearing physicians from Europe and North America for a Short course in tropical medicine in Tanzania and Uganda, taking place Oct. 4 to Nov. 12, 2010. The fee is $3,500 and includes all teaching, accommodation and transport within East Africa. Participants pay separately for their international flights and food. African […]
HIV
By Richard Ngethe, MBA, Data.FI As a data clerk in Kenya in 2005, my challenge was to work at rural hospitals digitizing client-level longitudinal data for […]
Tuberculosis
The publication of trial data showing a four-month treatment regimen for tuberculosis that is not resistant to first-line medicines as effective as the currently widely prescribed […]
Research & Development
By Mitchell Warren, executive director, AVAC In February 2020, just as the COVID pandemic began its rapid global spread, a major HIV vaccine trial called HVTN […]
Policy
By Karen Carvajal, M.D. Over the course of human history we have come a long way in our fight against the threat of infectious diseases and, […]