UNAIDS announced today that the goal of placing 15 million people on antiretroviral therapy has been met nine months ahead of schedule, with 40 percent of all people infected with HIV receiving treatment – a 22 fold increase since 2000 when the Millennium Development goals were set. HIV advocates, however, stress that treatment coverage still […]
HIV
Progress seen in recent years against the HIV pandemic, including in rising numbers of people diagnosed and treated accompanied by dropping rates of incidence and death, […]
Tuberculosis
SYDNEY – When Merinda Sebayang was undergoing treatment for multidrug-resistant TB in Indonesia – a nation with the third highest tuberculosis burden in the world after […]
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 a report showing that 2018 yielded the highest case numbers seen so far of a paralyzing condition largely among children who had been sick with […]