The Kaiser Family Foundation’s panel talk on changes at The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, focused on the impact of reorganization at the charity at a time when scientific progress offers unprecedented chances for inroads against the diseases. Panelists Joanne Carter, executive director of RESULTS/RESULTS EDUCATION FUND, J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice […]
On June 12, a Senate funding subcommittee voted on funding allocations for programs in health, human services, labor and education for the federal fiscal year beginning October 1, 2012. Many details have not been released and more information will become available when the full Senate appropriations committee votes on the bill on Thursday, June 14. […]
HIV
To control the global health threat of HIV by 2030, according to UNAIDS, these goals must be reached by 2020: To diagnose 90 percent of all […]
Tuberculosis
In sub-Saharan Africa where the odds of dying within a year of starting treatment for HIV can still hover close to one-in-10, diagnosing and treating TB […]
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
With more than 112,000 cases of measles reported by 170 countries so far this year, the world is seeing rising rates of a vaccine-preventable illness over […]