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HIV, TB, Malaria, Neglected Tropical Diseases: An International Infectious...

A nurse and a drug dealer make a deal to get clean needles to injecting drug users in a Tanzania slum, confronting HIV and TB where they thrive. The result is powerful, and the story of how and why...

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Dr. Deborah Birx: Fighting AIDS with research and treatment changed...

Two events make up the pillars of the narrative people who have worked with Dr. Deborah Birx tell, when they talk about the the physician researcher who has been nominated to lead the President’s...

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PrEP for sex workers in Kenya, HIV and contraception research, Uganda a...

State to buy sex workers HIV prevention drugs – This article, topped by a photo that tells its own story, backs into the description of a promising plan unpromisingly (“Kenyan taxpayers will have to...

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Harm reduction and an AIDS-free generation, sex work research, and...

Categories: What we're readingTags: amfAR, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, people who inject drugs, Sex work, Sustainable Development Goals, Ukraine, VietnamHarm Reduction and the Global HIV Epidemic –...

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Access to medicine, diagnostics and human rights . . . We’re reading how to...

Categories: TBTags: African Society for Laboratory Medicine, ASLM, bedaquiline, delamanid, KELIN, Kenya, MSF Access CampaignJust 2 percent of people with the severest cases of drug-resistant TB...

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Stigma surrounding tuberculosis keeps patients from services, worsens health...

Categories: TBTags: Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Dr. Madhukar Pai, International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, TB stigma, BMJ Global Health, Demographic and Health Surveys, Mike Frick,...

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116th Congress: Meet the new Republican, two new Democrats on the House...

Categories: 116th CongressTags: CARE, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico City Policy, Global Gag Rule, Ebola, Planned Parenthood, Sierra Leone, zika, Rep. Martha Roby, Rep. Lois Frankel, Rep. Norma TorresWith...

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Africa and COVID-19: Facts, figures, and myths

The following is a guest post by Dr. Bertha Serwa Ayi China has been courting African nations for years. Chinese investment and infrastructure include the $200 million African Union headquarters in...

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HIV: Best practices lead to a practical guide for lowering mother-to-child...

The following is a guest post by Elizabeth Sutherland, PhD, of MEASURE Evaluation The Partnership for HIV-Free Survival was an innovative project designed to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV...

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Lockdowns due to COVID-19 projected to stall TB detection and treatment...

While stay-in-place and physical distancing measures to control the spread of COVID-19 are projected to also slow the spread of other illnesses, lockdowns prompted by that pandemic will delay TB...

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