Science Speaks staff writer and Global Health Policy Research Coordinator Rabita Aziz attended the McGill University Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health June 13-17. MONTREAL – In health care, “test and treat” is considered the ideal. It’s a term most familiar to followers of HIV responses, in which treatment follows, rather than precedes, diagnostic […]
HIV
With an ambitious, but yet to be funded federal plan to end the American HIV epidemic within the next 10 years in front of Congress, about […]
Tuberculosis
HYDERABAD, INDIA – The world is one major step closer to a vaccine against tuberculosis, researchers said here, with results from a clinical trial of an […]
Research & Development
While the committee examining the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo emerged today from its 5th meeting with the conclusion that transmissions of the […]
Policy
DRC, Liberia, Madagascar, Somalia and Ukraine account for nearly half of global measles cases Measles incidence increased in five regions around the world between 2016 and […]