Jeffery Sachs, PhD – the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon – called on the membership of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene to take urgent action Sunday evening. Sachs gave the opening plenary address during the organization’s 60th Annual […]
The Center for Global Health Policy is joining with AVAC and the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) to host a congressional briefing to discuss the importance of protecting funding for the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), on Friday, December 9, from 12 – 1:30 PM in Senate Russell 385.
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, […]