When Dr. Jim Kim, President of the World Bank, began advocating for universal access to HIV treatment for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable in 2000, he met a strange response, that he recounted this week. “People were angry that we were talking about treating people with HIV/AIDS,” he said. “It’s as if people were […]
The proposal prepared by a U.S.-based public relations firm and obtained by South Africa’s Mail and Guardian just goes to show what a small world this is, especially when it comes to public health. The subject of the proposal, a “Campaign to Prevent Damage to Innovation from the Proposed Draft National IP Policy in South Africa,” […]
HIV
Innovative approaches can help find vulnerable young women in need of HIV prevention services The following is a guest post by Michelle Li, MS, and Quinn […]
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
With 2018 data showing highest incidence acute flaccid myelitis since monitoring began, officials say awareness, recognition of rare life threatening condition will be crucial to early […]
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, […]