Join us on Wednesday, Sept. 15th at a Global Health Council event looking at integrated health programs and how to achieve the sixth Millennium Development Goal — which pledges to halt and begin to reverse the incidence of AIDS, TB and Malaria by 2015. The event will start with a screening of “The Test,” a […]
A new study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases found that revaccination may benefit HIV-infected children. There is currently no standard or official recommendation on revaccination. In Nairobi’s slums, a community group called the Mathare Youth Sports Association is working with more than 20,000 youth to reduce HIV rates through sports. According to this PlusNews article, […]
HIV
The goals of controlling HIV sound like a straight forward series of three consecutive steps, one following another, when discussed in global and domestic epidemic-ending plans. […]
Tuberculosis
The announcement Wednesday of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of pretomanid, a new tuberculosis drug that has been part of a ground-breaking treatment regimen against […]
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
With a report showing that 2018 yielded the highest case numbers seen so far of a paralyzing condition largely among children who had been sick with […]