The National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) announced Thursday that a new ten-minute test for syphilis – that no longer requires long wait times for results, refrigeration, or drawing of blood – is likely to be a “game changer” and a “major advance in the fight against STDs and HIV,” according to a press release […]
HIV
Transmitted by people without symptoms, hitting populations regarded too widely as “disposable,” its spread facilitated by claims the deadly public health threat is a hoax, and […]
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
With 2018 data showing highest incidence acute flaccid myelitis since monitoring began, officials say awareness, recognition of rare life threatening condition will be crucial to early […]
Policy
By Karen Carvajal, M.D. Over the course of human history we have come a long way in our fight against the threat of infectious diseases and, […]