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
Leader Needed to Fight Another Pandemic: HIV – While the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted HIV services worldwide, the office of U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator has remained […]
Tuberculosis
In the six weeks before South Africa responded its first diagnoses of COVID-19 with the start of physical distancing measures, more than 47,000 people on average […]
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, […]