The Treatment Action Group’s 2014 Pipeline Report released in conjunction with the 20th International AIDS Conference last week devotes three sections to the outlook for better and more accessible treatment for hepatitis C, examining the promise of new direct acting antiviral treatments, starting with sofosbuvir (marketed by Gilead pharmaceutical company as Sovaldi) being eclipsed by […]
HIV
To control the global health threat of HIV by 2030, according to UNAIDS, these goals must be reached by 2020: To diagnose 90 percent of all […]
Tuberculosis
In sub-Saharan Africa where the odds of dying within a year of starting treatment for HIV can still hover close to one-in-10, diagnosing and treating TB […]
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 more than 112,000 cases of measles reported by 170 countries so far this year, the world is seeing rising rates of a vaccine-preventable illness over […]