BREAKING NEWS: New Global AIDS Ambassador at Large is first woman to hold the post The Senate this evening confirmed the nomination of Dr. Deborah Birx, filling the post to lead the world’s largest health program with a career physician researcher who has headed two previous international AIDS programs. Dr. Deborah Birx comes to the […]
Dolutegravir agreement continue collaboration between British company and Unitaid-launched treatment access organization With a high barrier to drug-resistance, low production costs, low dosing and a potential for pediatric use, the new HIV drug dolutegravir, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in August, and for use among adults and adolescents by the European Medicines […]
HIV
Leader Needed to Fight Another Pandemic: HIV – While the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted HIV services worldwide, the office of U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator has remained […]
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
By Mitchell Warren, executive director, AVAC In February 2020, just as the COVID pandemic began its rapid global spread, a major HIV vaccine trial called HVTN […]
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, […]