The following “What We’re Reading” collection is a compilation of recent articles making headlines in HIV and TB news. TB Detector Would Ferret out Disease Faster: This article from the Globe and Mail describes a tuberculosis detection device currently in development by researchers in India that works much like a Breathalyzer. The envisioned “electronic nose” […]
HIV
Leader Needed to Fight Another Pandemic: HIV – While the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted HIV services worldwide, the office of U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator has remained […]
Tuberculosis
In the six weeks before South Africa responded its first diagnoses of COVID-19 with the start of physical distancing measures, more than 47,000 people on average […]
Research & Development
By Mitchell Warren, executive director, AVAC In February 2020, just as the COVID pandemic began its rapid global spread, a major HIV vaccine trial called HVTN […]
Policy
By Karen Carvajal, M.D. Over the course of human history we have come a long way in our fight against the threat of infectious diseases and, […]