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
Progress seen in recent years against the HIV pandemic, including in rising numbers of people diagnosed and treated accompanied by dropping rates of incidence and death, […]
Tuberculosis
SYDNEY – When Merinda Sebayang was undergoing treatment for multidrug-resistant TB in Indonesia – a nation with the third highest tuberculosis burden in the world after […]
Research & Development
A randomized, multi-country clinical trial testing a regimen for treating drug-resistant tuberculosis in less than a year against the up to two-year regimen recommended by the […]
Policy
With a report showing that 2018 yielded the highest case numbers seen so far of a paralyzing condition largely among children who had been sick with […]