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
From 2016 to 2017, 14% of people living with HIV in the United States did something to save money on the out-of-pocket costs of their prescription […]
Tuberculosis
Combatting MDR TB: Year three – Released four years ago, the federal National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis raised hopes that targets and strategies would […]
Research & Development
This year marks the close of a dynamic decade in global infectious disease research and responses that changed expectations of what humanity can accomplish toward making […]
Policy
Wuhan City in the Hubei Province of the People’s Republic of China is on the Yangtze River and is the most populous city in central China. […]