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
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, […]