In 2014, ViiV Healthcare, a pharmaceutical company dedicated to ending the HIV epidemic, and the Medicines Patent Pool, an organisation funded primarily by Unitaid to...
August 7th, 2019Over the past three days, the World Health Organisation guideline development group has been meeting to discuss its recommendations for the use of contraceptive methods...
Dolutegravir (Tivicay) treatment paired with either of two tenofovir prodrugs showed non-inferior efficacy to a standard-of-care treatment regimen, MedPageToday research...Weekly Roundup
Medical aid fraud and waste and abuse are rife in SA, according to Jan Mothibi, head of the Special Investigating Unit, reports Weekend Argus. “Fifteen percent of all...
July 24th, 2019Techniques used to counter violent messages online from Islamic State and the far right is being adapted to counter the spread of “anti-vax” conspiracy theories,...
More than 700 have children have now been found to be infected with HIV in a huge outbreak in southern Pakistan, making up more than 80% of those who tested positive for...Weekly Roundup
Syphilis is now more common in some European countries than new instances of HIV following a 70% rise in cases over the past decade. A DW report says this is according...
July 10th, 2019The latest Ebola outbreak – which began in August 2018 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – is nothing short of a perfect storm of medical and political...
Tuberculosis incidence in sub-Saharan Africa is falling too slowly to meet global targets of an 80% reduction by 2030, and where incidence is falling, the decline is...Weekly Roundup
Uganda’s Minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, has launched a 100-day accelerated scale-up plan for tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) targeting over 300,000...
