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
Progress seen in recent years against the HIV pandemic, including in rising numbers of people diagnosed and treated accompanied by dropping rates of incidence and death, […]
Tuberculosis
SYDNEY – When Merinda Sebayang was undergoing treatment for multidrug-resistant TB in Indonesia – a nation with the third highest tuberculosis burden in the world after […]
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 […]