The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the leading funder of AIDS research, issued long-awaited funding announcements to create leadership groups for clinical research networks in HIV that will also address tuberculosis (TB) and hepatitis—leading co-morbidities in persons with HIV infection. Requests for applications […]
HIV
The goals of controlling HIV sound like a straight forward series of three consecutive steps, one following another, when discussed in global and domestic epidemic-ending plans. […]
Tuberculosis
The announcement Wednesday of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of pretomanid, a new tuberculosis drug that has been part of a ground-breaking treatment regimen against […]
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
The following is a guest post by Jacqueline Hellen and Lisa Parker of MEASURE Evaluation While programs in low- and middle-income countries seek to support children […]