License agreement with Medicine Patent Pool will speed clinical development of drug considered promising for improved treatment of tuberculosis responsive and resistant to existing drugs With all regimens to treat tuberculosis requiring multiple drugs, and all but two of those drugs tracing their lineage to the middle of the last century, excitement was high in […]
HIV
The U.S. Department of State today issued an expression of concern over Tanzanian government actions targeting its LGBT population, noting that the violence, oppression and intimidation […]
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
Declining rates of malaria infection and deaths since 2010 are leveling off, with the highest burden countries seeing increased case numbers, and dropping donor funding, according […]