The Lancet launched a series of articles on the global tuberculosis epidemic, which claims 1.8 million lives every year. The Lancet articles note that TB is a leading cause of death in people in the most economically productive age-groups. The series highlights scale up of treatment and diagnoses, drug-resistant TB, and HIV/TB co-infection, as well […]
HIV
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
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
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
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, […]