The following list of What We’re Reading is a compilation of recent releases and reports making headlines in global health: HIV may afflict almost half Asia-Pacific transgenders (UN): According to a new report from the United Nations (UN), almost 50 percent of transgender people in the Asia-Pacific region could be HIV infected – with poor […]
As of the end of the first quarter of 2012, nearly 864,000 GeneXpert MTB/RIF rapid tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic cartridges had been procured under manufacturer Cephied’s concessional pricing mechanism. The information was part of a the three-page report released in May by the Stop TB Department of the World Health Organization (WHO), giving an update on […]
HIV
The following is a guest post by Maureen Luba Milambe, African Regional Advocacy Advisor, AVAC On Tuesday (June 8), the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to […]
Tuberculosis
The publication of trial data showing a four-month treatment regimen for tuberculosis that is not resistant to first-line medicines as effective as the currently widely prescribed […]
Research & Development
By Mitchell Warren, executive director, AVAC In February 2020, just as the COVID pandemic began its rapid global spread, a major HIV vaccine trial called HVTN […]
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, […]