Five patients in four states — two in California, one in Arizona, and the patients in Washington state and Illinois announced last week — have now been confirmed in the United States to be infected with the coronavirus — 2019-nCoV — first identified in Wuhan, China earlier this month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control […]
Wuhan Coronavirus Map – Tracking the spread of an outbreak – The New York Times is updating this quick, comprehensive source faster than the CDC is updating its site with numbers of cases confirmed in a growing number of countries. Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China – The basis for […]
HIV
The following is a guest post by Maureen Luba Milambe, African Regional Advocacy Advisor, AVAC On Tuesday (June 8), the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to […]
Tuberculosis
The publication of trial data showing a four-month treatment regimen for tuberculosis that is not resistant to first-line medicines as effective as the currently widely prescribed […]
Research & Development
By Mitchell Warren, executive director, AVAC In February 2020, just as the COVID pandemic began its rapid global spread, a major HIV vaccine trial called HVTN […]
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, […]