The following is a post from Center for Global Health Policy Officer Carol Bergman, who recently traveled to Kenya with a group of Capitol Hill staff from key Congressional offices with jurisdiction over global health funding or programs. The purpose of our trip to Kenya was to better understand the impact of how US dollars […]
The second in a series of interviews with staff members of the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC), responsible for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program, Science Speaks sat down with Winnie Roberts, PhD. As director of multilateral diplomacy, Roberts manages OGAC’s engagement with the Global Fund to Fight […]
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
Two years after launching surveillance of acute flaccid myelitis, and amid climbing cases, CDC continues to seek cause, and notes gaps in knowledge of long term […]