VANCOUVER, Canada – A call for all countries to change policies, move resources, and lead efforts to provide antiretroviral drugs to treat all people living with HIV and to prevent transmission of the virus including through prophylactic use has been signed by heads of the worlds largest donor AIDS programs, the leader of UNAIDS, and […]
VANCOUVER, Canada – Treatment eligibility for everyone diagnosed with HIV without a wait for the virus to damage their immune systems, the option of treatment initiation for all pregnant women with HIV, integration of new options for first line treatment were among changes that will be spelled out in the next World Health Organization guidelines for HIV treatment […]
When the International AIDS Society 2015 Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment & Prevention convenes in Vancouver, British Columbia Sunday, Science Speaks will be there, bringing live coverage of breaking news and reporting on presentations from leading clinicians and researchers. Stay tuned July 19 – 22 for updates on the START trial, HPTN 052, optimizing treatment, […]
HIV
The following is a guest post by Cristina de la Torre, DSc, MPH of MEASURE Evaluation In southern Africa, a large population of young and adolescent […]
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 […]