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HIV
Lancet series highlights a vicious circle of inequities hobbling efforts to end disease spread
Steeped in inequities that include formidable barriers to basic health services for multitudes of its most vulnerable, marginalized and neglected people, the country leading global HIV […]
Tuberculosis
Cost of pandemic includes setbacks to South Africa tuberculosis testing, diagnoses
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
CDC urges physicians, parents to be on lookout for AFM, a polio-like illness seen predominately in children
With 2018 data showing highest incidence acute flaccid myelitis since monitoring began, officials say awareness, recognition of rare life threatening condition will be crucial to early […]
Policy
As environmental destruction accelerates the spread of emerging infections, we need to talk
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, […]