Factors associated with mortality of HIV-positive clients receiving methadone maintenance treatment in China: Increasing daily methadone doses for Chinese injection drug users (IDUs) receiving methadone maintenance treatment reduces mortality in both HIV-infected and uninfected individuals, according to a study recently published in the Journal or Infectious Diseases. Enwu Liu and other researchers examined records of […]
HIV
By Richard Ngethe, MBA, Data.FI As a data clerk in Kenya in 2005, my challenge was to work at rural hospitals digitizing client-level longitudinal data for […]
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, […]