CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Goodman Macanda’s life revolved around taking medicines. Every morning he took ten pills. Then he went to the community clinic in Khayelitsha and waited while nurses searched for a place that wasn’t already swollen, so they could give him yet another in a six-month-long series of daily painful injections. After returning […]
HIV
The following is a guest post by Maureen Luba Milambe, African Regional Advocacy Advisor, AVAC On Tuesday (June 8), the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to […]
Tuberculosis
The publication of trial data showing a four-month treatment regimen for tuberculosis that is not resistant to first-line medicines as effective as the currently widely prescribed […]
Research & Development
By Mitchell Warren, executive director, AVAC In February 2020, just as the COVID pandemic began its rapid global spread, a major HIV vaccine trial called HVTN […]
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, […]