Professor Richard Hayes of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LHSTM) will lead a team of researchers in a $37 million project – entitled PopART – to test innovative combination strategies to prevent HIV in African countries. That’s according to a press release from LSHTM last week that announced the joint effort to […]
The Senate Appropriations Committee agreed to provide $7.9 billion for global health programs for the 2012 fiscal year beginning October 1 – $810 million below what President Obama requested for these programs and about $75 million above current funding levels – according to a committee press release. For the second year in a row, the global AIDS budget has been cut – despite promising research findings that chart a way forward to cut the toll from the major infectious disease killer…
HIV
From 2016 to 2017, 14% of people living with HIV in the United States did something to save money on the out-of-pocket costs of their prescription […]
Tuberculosis
Combatting MDR TB: Year three – Released four years ago, the federal National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis raised hopes that targets and strategies would […]
Research & Development
This year marks the close of a dynamic decade in global infectious disease research and responses that changed expectations of what humanity can accomplish toward making […]
Policy
Wuhan City in the Hubei Province of the People’s Republic of China is on the Yangtze River and is the most populous city in central China. […]