Unabated HIV, hepatitis and TB epidemics, overlapping with rising rates of cancers, heart disease, and other chronic noncommunicable illnesses, along with the costs of lifelong treatments are seeing middle-income countries struggling to meet their population’s health needs, the recently released brief Access Challenges for HIV Treatment begins. Add failures in procurement and distribution systems, as […]
HIV
The science is clear, HIV criminalization is abusive, discriminatory and counterproductive – The destructiveness of HIV-specific laws that fueled stigma and discouraged diagnosis by criminalizing people […]
Tuberculosis
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – New results from the ongoing Nix-TB trial continue to confirm a short-course treatment regimen of bedaquiline – one of the two newest […]
Research & Development
A trial to test the safety of, and immune response prompted by, the latest candidate for a vaccine to protect against Zika virus infection has begun […]
Policy
So many lessons are offered in a recent communication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about antibiotic-resistant infections among patients returning to the […]