Periodically, Science Speaks blogs live from major global health events. Click on any of the events below to see our coverage.

What We’re Reading: Why it’s time to pick the next PEPFAR leader
Leader Needed to Fight Another Pandemic: HIV – While the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted HIV services worldwide, the office of U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator has remained […]

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 […]

Can unprecedented success in COVID vaccine development boost prospects for an HIV vaccine?
By Mitchell Warren, executive director, AVAC In February 2020, just as the COVID pandemic began its rapid global spread, a major HIV vaccine trial called HVTN […]

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, […]