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
The U.S. Department of State today issued an expression of concern over Tanzanian government actions targeting its LGBT population, noting that the violence, oppression and intimidation […]
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
Two years after launching surveillance of acute flaccid myelitis, and amid climbing cases, CDC continues to seek cause, and notes gaps in knowledge of long term […]