The Center participated in live blogging from the 18th annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), held in Boston February 27 – March 2, 2011. Coverage includes updates on topical and systemic PrEP, HIV treatment adherence in resource-limited settings, and promising results from a rectal formulation of tenofovir gel.
This is the first in a week-long series exploring efforts to reduce HIV incidence via scaling up medical male circumcision (MC) in sub-Saharan Africa. Clinical trials have shown MC protects males by up to 60 percent from contracting HIV during vaginal sex. For more information, check out the Center’s recent report “Medical Male Circumcision as […]
Given the synergistic epidemics of HIV and TB in southern Africa, the question of how and when to integrate HIV and TB treatment in co-infected patients is a critical one. Here at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Drs. Diane Havlir and Salim Abdool Karim presented important results from two randomized clinical trials attempting […]
Anthony Harries, MD, offered a powerful overview of the history of the global AIDS response from the vantage point of his work over more than a decade in the small African country of Malawi. He spoke at the plenary session of the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston Sunday. Malawi is a […]
HIV
Dr. Manasseh Phiri was working at the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia when I met him 10 years ago, although his days as a […]
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
The following is a guest post by Heather B. Davis, MPH, and Emily A. Bobrow, PhD, MPH, of MEASURE Evaluation Who has a strategic interest in […]