The National Institutes of Health is slated for a flat budget request of almost $31 billion in the Administration’s budget released today. If Congress approves this budget request, the NIH will continue to fund only a modest fraction of approved and meritorious grants. The nation’s lead public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and […]
The Obama administration released its fiscal year (FY) 2013 budget today with a proposed $1.65 billion funding level—an increase of 57 percent over FY 2012 – for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to meet the U.S. pledge of $4 billion over 3 years. This substantial and welcome budget request for the Global fund clearly […]
HIV
Well into the era of effective treatment for HIV, a question contributed to a lag in access to the life-saving antiretroviral drugs in resource limited countries: […]
Tuberculosis
HYDERABAD, INDIA – The world is one major step closer to a vaccine against tuberculosis, researchers said here, with results from a clinical trial of 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
A natural death: The political battlefield of infections and migrant children’s bodies – Tracing the events surrounding the death of eight-year-old Felipe Alonso Gomez in U.S. […]