President Obama today nominated a member of his administration whose leadership of health and humanitarian responses included guiding development of the U.S. Global Health Initiative and the Global Health Security Agenda to be the next head of the United States Agency for International Development. Gayle Smith, now director of Development and Democracy at the National […]
Study also finds HIV subtype most common in Africa progresses the fastest A multinational study has spelled out two ways the cards are stacked against those living with the virus in the countries where rates of HIV are highest, with greater risks of treatment failing to suppress the virus. Findings from the PEARLS study, released […]
When antiretroviral treatment finally came to the people who needed it in Zambia, the HIV epidemic had produced another challenge there: People were dying of cancers that are routinely diagnosed and treated in wealthy countries. For a country where still-growing HIV and tuberculosis epidemics had overwhelmed an ill-equipped and under-financed health system and depleted its […]
West African countries affected by the Ebola outbreak are shifting the scope of health systems strengthening to build resilient health systems that can deal with a variety of challenges, said panelists at a CSIS forum last week. Affected countries are developing recovery plans that put health systems strengthening at the forefront, but are pushing for strengthening […]
Help us fix the TPP – Médecins Sans Frontières depends on access to affordable drugs to balance the odds against people in places where life-saving treatment is scarce. The international humanitarian organization, which has a record of recognizing and responding to health threats others have ignored, explains in a video here how the lengthy and […]
Study looks at persistent impact of Ebola virus infection More than two years after surviving an Ebola virus that killed 39 people in Uganda, adults reported chronic debilitating health issues that included vision problems, hearing loss, headaches, joint pain, memory deficits, confusion, and trouble carrying out routine work activities, a study published today in The […]
If you are listening to speakers representing U.S. leadership of global AIDS responses, usually you are likely to hear about the great success of efforts to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV, as evidenced by more than a million babies born uninfected with the virus, thanks to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. […]
In a prospective autopsy study published in The Lancet of patients who died at a hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, researchers found a large percentage of patients were infected with tuberculosis but had gone undiagnosed and untreated, and 17 percent of patients infected with tuberculosis were indeed infected with multidrug-resistant TB but also remained undiagnosed. Aiming […]
Dr. Jack Whitescarver, the longest serving director of the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health will soon step down from his post, following a career at the NIH that started at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. His tenure as OAR director oversaw progress in HIV cure research and combatting HIV […]
HIV
Sub-Saharan African countries where adolescents 15 or younger could be tested for HIV without sign-off by parents or guardians show 11 percent higher rates of testing […]
Tuberculosis
With the release of a “pre-final text” of updated guidelines for treatment of multidrug- and rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis, the World Health Organization made official substantial changes to […]
Research & Development
A trial to test the safety of, and immune response prompted by, the latest candidate for a vaccine to protect against Zika virus infection has begun […]
Policy
A year that started with a shutdown of the U.S. government is ending the same way, demonstrating ongoing instability in American policy, funding and global health […]