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
To control the global health threat of HIV by 2030, according to UNAIDS, these goals must be reached by 2020: To diagnose 90 percent of all […]
Tuberculosis
In sub-Saharan Africa where the odds of dying within a year of starting treatment for HIV can still hover close to one-in-10, diagnosing and treating TB […]
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 more than 112,000 cases of measles reported by 170 countries so far this year, the world is seeing rising rates of a vaccine-preventable illness over […]