Bishops, rabbis and pastors across the U.S. sent a letter to the President Monday making the case for increased funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and U.S. contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. President Obama is poised to make his fiscal year (FY) 2012 budget request […]
Here are some recent new stories and publications of interest: The spread of TB and latent TB in prisons, where risk of infection is higher than in the general population, can substantially increase overall incidence of the disease. That’s according to systematic review findings by Iacopo Baussano from the University Amedeo Avogadro in Italy and colleagues […]
HIV
Amid unprecedented challenges to routine healthcare access, trial results mark a first for a critically needed HIV prevention measure An investigational drug administered by injection every […]
Tuberculosis
In the six weeks before South Africa responded its first diagnoses of COVID-19 with the start of physical distancing measures, more than 47,000 people on average […]
Research & Development
What we have learned from HIV can guide responses to COVID-19 that are innovative, effective and inclusive, and can help end the pandemic faster The following […]
Policy
The following is a guest post by Kenneth G. Castro, MD, FIDSA Since its formation in 1948, WHO has relied heavily on the U.S. for collaborations […]