Yesterday, the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (GAC), USAID, UNITAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced an agreement that will reduce the price of Xpert MTB/RIF cartridges from $16.86 to $9.98 with funds provided through this partnership. And the price will not increase until 2022. Cepheild’s GeneXpert is a molecular diagnostic system […]
HIV
More than 8% of people living with HIV worldwide also live with hepatitis B virus, a disease that increases death rates and accelerates liver damage among […]
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
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 […]