World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has asked the committee of experts that declined to declare that the spread of a new coronavirus from China is a global health emergency following its last Jan. 23 meeting, to reconvene Thursday and revisit the question. The outcome of that meeting, he said today, could be the […]
HIV
Leader Needed to Fight Another Pandemic: HIV – While the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted HIV services worldwide, the office of U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator has remained […]
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
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, […]