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
The goals of controlling HIV sound like a straight forward series of three consecutive steps, one following another, when discussed in global and domestic epidemic-ending plans. […]
Tuberculosis
The announcement Wednesday of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of pretomanid, a new tuberculosis drug that has been part of a ground-breaking treatment regimen against […]
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 […]