UNAIDS Report Shows Gains in HIV Prevention
The new UNAIDS report out today—an epidemic update—highlights key strides made in HIV prevention. New HIV infections have been reduced by 17% over the past eight years, the new UNAIDS data shows,...
View ArticleNew WHO guidelines for HIV treatment would begin to narrow care gap between...
WHO: Comprehensive guidelines to start treatment earlier in illness and, for some, immediately, would make 26 million people eligible for medicine, avert 3 million deaths, prevent more than 3 million...
View ArticleWorld Hepatitis Day brings progress, setbacks, protests, and a petition
Sunday is World Hepatitis Day, and publications, protests and petitions are highlighting issues surrounding an epidemic traditionally shrouded in silence that affects more than 500 million people...
View ArticleFixing what’s broken and breaking what’s fixed . . . We’re reading about WHO...
Categories: What we're readingTags: Gilead, India generic drugs, Margaret Chan, President Obama, sofosbuvir, World Health OrganizationUN health agency urges better global preparedness against future...
View ArticleWHO: Ebola is no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
Categories: U.S. Policy and FundingTags: Ebola, Margaret Chan, WHOAcknowledging that a flare up of Ebola sickness and transmission in Guinea is ongoing, and that more clusters of Ebola cases can be...
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