At last week’s Global Aids Policy Partnership meeting, representatives from the Medicines Patent Pool gave a presentation on their organization, which works to expand access to life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) medicines in the developing world by working with patent holders to negotiate licenses for key HIV medicines patents. This allows generic drug companies to produce high […]
HIV
The goals of controlling HIV sound like a straight forward series of three consecutive steps, one following another, when discussed in global and domestic epidemic-ending plans. […]
Tuberculosis
The announcement Wednesday of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of pretomanid, a new tuberculosis drug that has been part of a ground-breaking treatment regimen against […]
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
The Ebola Virus is Winning – This comprehensive analysis by J. Stephen Morrison of the Center for Strategic & International Studies explains how with unprecedented advantages […]