An infectious diseases physician and pediatrician with experience in both U.S. and global HIV responses will lead the Division of Global HIV/AIDS at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She will assume the post opened when Dr. Deborah Birx left in early April to head the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. […]
HIV
Steeped in inequities that include formidable barriers to basic health services for multitudes of its most vulnerable, marginalized and neglected people, the country leading global HIV […]
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
With 2018 data showing highest incidence acute flaccid myelitis since monitoring began, officials say awareness, recognition of rare life threatening condition will be crucial to early […]
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, […]