While the known spread and impacts of Zika virus raise concerns about the upcoming convergence of international visitors to the Olympic and Paralympic games in the country that has seen more infections than any other, it is the unknowns that will bring researchers to study the health of U.S. Olympic team members traveling to Brazil […]
The work of controlling, learning from deadliest Ebola outbreak, preparing for future continues, amid uncertain funding for ongoing responses to crisis A study of men who survived Ebola and have continued to show evidence of the virus in their semen will determine the effectiveness of what Dr. Anthony Fauci hopes will be “another weapon in […]
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, […]