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
As the federal Ending the HIV epidemic takes form, experts talk details, challenges: “How do we get there from here?” WASHINGTON, DC – Nearly four decades […]
Tuberculosis
But with a $3.3 billion shortfall in funding, gaps in treatment and prevention among the most vulnerable still take 4,000 lives a day For the first […]
Research & Development
While a World Health Organization-led strategy aims to provide 1.4 billion doses of vaccine against yellow fever to achieve 80% vaccination coverage across countries by 2026 […]
Policy
A natural death: The political battlefield of infections and migrant children’s bodies – Tracing the events surrounding the death of eight-year-old Felipe Alonso Gomez in U.S. […]