Kaitlin Christenson is coalition director for the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC), an organization with more than three dozen member-groups that work on neglected diseases, including HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. The coalition, formalized just two years ago, advocates for more research and backs new U.S. policies to accelerate the development of new drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, and […]
HIV
The U.S. Department of State today issued an expression of concern over Tanzanian government actions targeting its LGBT population, noting that the violence, oppression and intimidation […]
Tuberculosis
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – New results from the ongoing Nix-TB trial continue to confirm a short-course treatment regimen of bedaquiline – one of the two newest […]
Research & Development
A trial to test the safety of, and immune response prompted by, the latest candidate for a vaccine to protect against Zika virus infection has begun […]
Policy
Declining rates of malaria infection and deaths since 2010 are leveling off, with the highest burden countries seeing increased case numbers, and dropping donor funding, according […]