Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading voice for understanding HIV and infectious diseases in the U.S. government for a quarter century, often draws a crowd when he speaks—because of his ability to concisely say what needs to be done. Today, he did just that. Speaking at a briefing on global HIV-TB issues sponsored by the Center […]
Welcome to our live blog just across from the U.S. Capitol, where more than 100 HIV and TB scientists, policymakers, and advocates have come together for a symposium titled “Changing Course: Stemming the Deadly Twin Epidemics of HIV and Tuberculosis.” Two back-to-back sessions—sponsored by the Center for Global Health Policy and the Global Health Council—will feature […]
HIV
Since the president’s Feb. 5 State of the Union address pledge to end transmissions of HIV in the United States in the next 10 years, and […]
Tuberculosis
Releasing the most recent domestic and global data on tuberculosis incidence in this week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and […]
Research & Development
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
The following is a guest post by Emily Weaver, PhD, of MEASURE Evaluation Health projects and donors in low-resource countries increasingly aim to leverage existing data […]