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
Steeped in inequities that include formidable barriers to basic health services for multitudes of its most vulnerable, marginalized and neglected people, the country leading global HIV […]
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
With 2018 data showing highest incidence acute flaccid myelitis since monitoring began, officials say awareness, recognition of rare life threatening condition will be crucial to early […]
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, […]