Dr. Zarir F. Udwadia, a consultant chest physician at Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai. News reports of at least a dozen cases of “totally drug resistant” tuberculosis (TB) in India recently have raised various questions, including why India and why now? In a letter to the editor in December’s issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) joined with the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) last week to discuss the department’s first ever global health strategy, outlined in a new report. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discussed the department’s burgeoning commitment to asserting its role in improving the health and well-being of people around the […]
HIV
From 2016 to 2017, 14% of people living with HIV in the United States did something to save money on the out-of-pocket costs of their prescription […]
Tuberculosis
Incorporating patient data from national TB programs and from ongoing research, the World Health Organization has updated its guidelines on treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis with 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 […]