On the eve of the Global Fund Replenishment Conference at a White House event celebrating World AIDS Day, President Obama pledged a continuing US leadership role to respond to the AIDS pandemic “until all men and women can protect themselves from infection, everyone has access to treatment and no babies are born with HIV.” He […]
Along with an article looking at HIV in the U.S. among men who are gay, bisexual and have sex with men, two articles in the pre-World AIDS Day edition of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report examine outcomes of treatment and circumcision rollouts in Africa, and cite the opportunities […]
As global health leaders from around the world gather in Washington, D.C. this week for the fourth replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, experts are weighing in on what worldwide disease responses can achieve now. Agnes Binagwaho is Rwanda’s Minister of Health, a pediatrician and a lecturer at Harvard Medical […]
HIV
Amid unprecedented challenges to routine healthcare access, trial results mark a first for a critically needed HIV prevention measure An investigational drug administered by injection every […]
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
What we have learned from HIV can guide responses to COVID-19 that are innovative, effective and inclusive, and can help end the pandemic faster The following […]
Policy
The following is a guest post by Kenneth G. Castro, MD, FIDSA Since its formation in 1948, WHO has relied heavily on the U.S. for collaborations […]