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
To control the global health threat of HIV by 2030, according to UNAIDS, these goals must be reached by 2020: To diagnose 90 percent of all […]
Tuberculosis
In sub-Saharan Africa where the odds of dying within a year of starting treatment for HIV can still hover close to one-in-10, diagnosing and treating TB […]
Research & Development
A randomized, multi-country clinical trial testing a regimen for treating drug-resistant tuberculosis in less than a year against the up to two-year regimen recommended by the […]
Policy
With more than 112,000 cases of measles reported by 170 countries so far this year, the world is seeing rising rates of a vaccine-preventable illness over […]