The IDSA Center for Global Health Policy and the HIV Medicine Association released a policy statement on the results of HPTN 052 with recommendations for U.S. global and domestic AIDS Policy. Entitled “U.S. Policy and Funding on AIDS Should Follow the Science,” the statement recommends that a larger share of the PEPFAR budget be devoted […]
The following is a blog post by Kristen Jill Kresge of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Writing from the AIDS Vaccine Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, Kresge provides a synopsis of the first plenary session of the conference. The post was originally published on IAVIReport. At the first plenary session of AIDS Vaccine 2011, which opened this […]
The following is a blog post by Jose Esparza, Deputy Director of HIV Vaccines at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Writing from the AIDS Vaccine Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, Dr. Esparza discusses recent scientific developments in the creation of an AIDS vaccine, and what we can expect to see in the future. The post […]
HIV
Steeped in inequities that include formidable barriers to basic health services for multitudes of its most vulnerable, marginalized and neglected people, the country leading global HIV […]
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, […]