A scientific review board has closed down the oral tenofovir arm of the Vaginal and Oral Interventions to Control the Epidemic (VOICE) study looking at pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) HIV prevention interventions among women in Africa. The Microbicides Trial Network, responsible for the study, made the announcement Wednesday. VOICE is the first study to compare the […]
The House Appropriations Committee posted a draft bill today funding the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education programs. The draft contains a $1 billion increase for biomedical research for a total of $31.7 billion at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), but eliminates $300 million in funding for the Global Fund to […]
HIV
With an ambitious, but yet to be funded federal plan to end the American HIV epidemic within the next 10 years in front of Congress, about […]
Tuberculosis
HYDERABAD, INDIA – The world is one major step closer to a vaccine against tuberculosis, researchers said here, with results from a clinical trial of an […]
Research & Development
While the committee examining the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo emerged today from its 5th meeting with the conclusion that transmissions of the […]
Policy
DRC, Liberia, Madagascar, Somalia and Ukraine account for nearly half of global measles cases Measles incidence increased in five regions around the world between 2016 and […]