HIV
What We’re Reading: In HIV and TB treatment, science supports human rights
The science is clear, HIV criminalization is abusive, discriminatory and counterproductive – The destructiveness of HIV-specific laws that fueled stigma and discouraged diagnosis by criminalizing people […]
Tuberculosis
49th Union World Conference on Lung Health: 90 percent of participants in short-course XDR-TB regimen cured after six months
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
Vaccinations begin in new Zika prevention trial
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
Medical tourism brings antibiotic-resistant infections home
So many lessons are offered in a recent communication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about antibiotic-resistant infections among patients returning to the […]