AMSTERDAM – Non-governmental organizations in eastern Europe and central Asia providing essential HIV treatment and prevention services to populations who have been left behind in the global HIV response will soon get an infusion of resources to reach people who inject drugs and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. Singer and HIV activist Sir Elton John announced […]
AMSTERDAM – A man who came to the Uniting Medically Supervised Injection Centre at Kings Cross in the epicenter of Sydney Australia’s conjoined epidemics of infectious diseases and opioid use, was in his late 30s, homeless, with a long history of injecting drugs, and of hepatitis C infection. Seizures, as many as several a week, frequently […]
HIV
Thirty years ago this week Congress passed the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act, named for the young man who stood up to stigma and […]
Tuberculosis
In the six weeks before South Africa responded its first diagnoses of COVID-19 with the start of physical distancing measures, more than 47,000 people on average […]
Research & Development
With 2018 data showing highest incidence acute flaccid myelitis since monitoring began, officials say awareness, recognition of rare life threatening condition will be crucial to early […]
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, […]