CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Global and national leaders met this week at the Union World Conference on Lung Health in Cape Town to endorse the Stop TB Partnership’s new plan to end the tuberculosis epidemic by 2035. The plan calls for diagnosing and treating at least 90 percent of all people infected with tuberculosis, including […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Today the TB Alliance, UNITAID and partners announced the availability of simple to administer and affordable medicines in the correct doses to treat tuberculosis in children. With 140,000 children globally who die of the curable disease every year, the announcement, made at the Union Lung Health conference in Cape Town, South […]
In its function as a source of inspiration, a World AIDS Day theme must be unambiguous and positive, and leave out nuances that might offend or discourage, with the result this year of “The Time to Act is Now.” More upbeat than “Don’t stop now,” less daunting than “Try harder,” and more forgiving than “Better […]
HIV
The following is a guest post By Sharon Weir, Ph.D. of MEASURE Evaluation For almost 35 years, HIV/AIDS has been a household word across the globe. […]
Tuberculosis
The following is a guest post by Stephanie Mullen, DrPH, and Jim Thomas, PhD of MEASURE Evaluation USAID announced September 26 a new approach to fight […]
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
Estimate exceeds previous estimates by more than $20 billion Deaths from non-Ebola causes contributed to highest West Africa outbreak costs, authors say During the 2013 to […]