Data shows combination of prevention measures working, but with more elements needed SEATTLE – As an effective approach to controlling HIV, the value of “combination HIV prevention” is discussed often enough to be known by its initials: CHP. But as always when letters replace words, what they encompass , and if the whole of something called CHP is at least as […]
SEATTLE – Providing antiretroviral therapy to pregnant women in antenatal care settings has become commonplace in sub-Saharan African settings, but keeping these women in care after their babies are born has been challenging. Continuing antiretroviral treatment services for women in settings where postnatal services are provided to them and their infants is a “simple and […]
HIV
Dr. Manasseh Phiri was working at the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia when I met him 10 years ago, although his days as a […]
Tuberculosis
In sub-Saharan Africa where the odds of dying within a year of starting treatment for HIV can still hover close to one-in-10, diagnosing and treating TB […]
Research & Development
A randomized, multi-country clinical trial testing a regimen for treating drug-resistant tuberculosis in less than a year against the up to two-year regimen recommended by the […]
Policy
With more than 112,000 cases of measles reported by 170 countries so far this year, the world is seeing rising rates of a vaccine-preventable illness over […]