After studies last week strengthened the link between Zika virus and fetal abnormalities, including microcephaly, as well as to the neurological Guillain–Barré syndrome in adults, World Health Organization officials have called for a meeting of the emergency committee examining the international health threat posed by the virus to discuss recommendations on travel, trade, and ways to […]
HIV
The science is clear, HIV criminalization is abusive, discriminatory and counterproductive – The destructiveness of HIV-specific laws that fueled stigma and discouraged diagnosis by criminalizing people […]
Tuberculosis
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – New results from the ongoing Nix-TB trial continue to confirm a short-course treatment regimen of bedaquiline – one of the two newest […]
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
So many lessons are offered in a recent communication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about antibiotic-resistant infections among patients returning to the […]