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
Well into the era of effective treatment for HIV, a question contributed to a lag in access to the life-saving antiretroviral drugs in resource limited countries: […]
Tuberculosis
HYDERABAD, INDIA – The world is one major step closer to a vaccine against tuberculosis, researchers said here, with results from a clinical trial of an […]
Research & Development
While the committee examining the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo emerged today from its 5th meeting with the conclusion that transmissions of the […]
Policy
A natural death: The political battlefield of infections and migrant children’s bodies – Tracing the events surrounding the death of eight-year-old Felipe Alonso Gomez in U.S. […]