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
The goals of controlling HIV sound like a straight forward series of three consecutive steps, one following another, when discussed in global and domestic epidemic-ending plans. […]
Tuberculosis
The announcement Wednesday of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of pretomanid, a new tuberculosis drug that has been part of a ground-breaking treatment regimen against […]
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 a report showing that 2018 yielded the highest case numbers seen so far of a paralyzing condition largely among children who had been sick with […]