Science Speaks is live-blogging from AIDS 2014 in Melbourne, Australia this week, with updates on research, policy and insights from the 20th International AIDS Conference. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – Shaffiq Essajee spoke during today’s plenary session about HIV prevention and treatment for children with a strong focus on the treatment side. “While we are seeing 60 […]
Science Speaks is live-blogging from AIDS 2014 in Melbourne, Australia this week, with updates on research, policy and insights from the 20th International AIDS Conference. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – Professor David Cooper kicked off the final opening plenary in Melbourne today with a review on antiretroviral therapy including a look at recommended drug regimens for first- […]
Science Speaks is live-blogging from AIDS 2014 in Melbourne, Australia through the week, with updates on research, policy and insights from the 20th International AIDS Conference. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – Activists surprised Gilead corporate executives today with a “die-in” to protest the pricing of Gilead’s hepatitis C drug, Solvaldi (sofosbuvir). As Gregg Alton, Gilead’s Executive Vice-President […]
Science Speaks is live-blogging from AIDS 2014 in Melbourne, Australia through the week, with updates on research, policy and insights from the 20th International AIDS Conference. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – Laurindo Garcia, a gay man living with HIV in the Philippines offered a moving conclusion to the opening plenary In Melbourne on Thursday, speaking to […]
Science Speaks is live-blogging from AIDS 2014 in Melbourne, Australia through the week, with updates on research, policy and insights from the 20th International AIDS Conference. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – During the opening plenary today, Beatriz Grinszteijn offered insights about men with have sex with men and transgender women echoing many of the themes raised in […]
HIV
Once outbreak was recognized, program put in place reduced number of ongoing transmissions, modeling shows In 2015, when 181 of rural Scott County, Indiana’s 24,000 residents […]
Tuberculosis
The following is a guest post by Heather B. Davis, MPH, and Emily A. Bobrow, PhD, MPH, of MEASURE Evaluation Who has a strategic interest in […]
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
GENEVA – The countries least responsible for climate change are paying the highest price in health impacts, a delegate from Barbados was the first to note […]