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
To control the global health threat of HIV by 2030, according to UNAIDS, these goals must be reached by 2020: To diagnose 90 percent of all […]
Tuberculosis
In sub-Saharan Africa where the odds of dying within a year of starting treatment for HIV can still hover close to one-in-10, diagnosing and treating TB […]
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 more than 112,000 cases of measles reported by 170 countries so far this year, the world is seeing rising rates of a vaccine-preventable illness over […]