VANCOUVER, Canada – Of the many challenges women who make a living or augment their income through sex work confront, efforts to address one need sometimes seems to occur in isolation from others, presentations here highlighted today. Consider, for example, the case of sex workers in Iran, who one presenter from that country said, his government prefers to refer to […]
VANCOUVER, Canada – HIV self-testing has been a hot topic at this meeting beginning with the release of new HIV testing guidelines by the World Health Organization here that include it, and its potential role in meeting the first 90 of the UNAIDS 90-90-90 framework. The number of people in the HIV epicenter that is […]
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, […]