Point-of-care diagnostics for tuberculosis elimination? – In this commentary published in The Lancet, Christian Wejse cites a recent randomized trial comparing point-of-care GeneXpert with smear microscopy in the management of TB to argue that instead of investing heavily to provide all peripheral health facilities in the world with GeneXpert, the same investment could ensure that […]
HIV
Well into the era of effective treatment for HIV, a question contributed to a lag in access to the life-saving antiretroviral drugs in resource limited countries: […]
Tuberculosis
HYDERABAD, INDIA – The world is one major step closer to a vaccine against tuberculosis, researchers said here, with results from a clinical trial of an […]
Research & Development
While the committee examining the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo emerged today from its 5th meeting with the conclusion that transmissions of the […]
Policy
A natural death: The political battlefield of infections and migrant children’s bodies – Tracing the events surrounding the death of eight-year-old Felipe Alonso Gomez in U.S. […]