The following is a guest post by Olivier Kakesa, MPH, of MEASURE Evaluation The Democratic Republic of Congo government’s response to the outbreak of Ebola in the country’s northwest Bikoro, Equatuer province includes mobilization of national epidemiological experts and local health staff to deal with the outbreak, vaccinating key personnel — such as health workers […]
A World Health Organization-convened committee examining the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo concluded today that the current conditions of the outbreak do not constitute an international health emergency, but do continue to pose significant challenges that could warrant revisiting the question. WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus called for the committee to weigh […]
On Tuesday, as the World Health Organization announced that Ebola had broken out in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the second time in a year, and the ninth time since the discovery of the disease there in the late 1970s, the White House released one more proposal to to cut funding for global and […]
Laboratory confirmation of two cases of Ebola in Bikoro, a lakeside market town in the northwestern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has prompted government health officials there to declare an outbreak of the virus, the World Health Organization announced today. WHO, Médecins Sans Frontières, and provincial health officials have sent teams to the […]
It’s HIV, Ebola and Zika that put these white hairs on his head, Dr. Anthony Fauci told a group of reporters Thursday. Still, he remains startlingly recognizable as the face of biomedical science in the early 1980s, when modern medicine seemed to have met its match. Back then, Dr. Fauci recounts, he had to face […]
With transmissions between family members accounting for most infections during the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, the virus spread to other members in one out of three households that was home to an infected person, a study in one Sierra Leone community found. In half of those households experiencing transmissions, the initial case led to […]
Prolonged persistence of virus has personal, public health, research implications A Liberia-based study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases has found evidence of Ebola in the semen of 11 of 137 Ebola survivors who donated samples more than two years after the onset of their illness. The study followed 149 survivors of the 2013 – […]
Early response was built on experience, collaboration, and access to funds In a remote forested corner of the country with little access to electricity and telecommunications, everything that health workers needed to contain the Ebola outbreak that was recognized on May 11 in the Democratic Republic of Congo had to be sent in — generators, […]
HIV
Two epidemics, fueled by stigma and allowed to flourish amidst political neglect, set the course of Dr. Judith Feinberg’s professional life. So when she was asked […]
Tuberculosis
Medicine represents third choice over “deaf or dead” for many patients, health worker/tuberculosis survivor-founded organization says Praising the treatment policy decision of South Africa health officials […]
Research & Development
Tools to diagnose and monitor HIV, hepatitis B and C, and tuberculosis, as well as resistance to first-line TB treatment are among the tests included in […]
Policy
Brushing aside White House proposals to cut global HIV and other international disease response funding, members of the House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education […]