Injection-free vaccination technique could address global vaccine challenge for diseases such as HIV and malaria

A nationwide shortage of a common anti-tuberculosis drug has public health officials in the central San Joaquin Valley limiting treatment.

PQM provides technical assistance to manufacturers around the world to address inadequate supply of quality-assured medicines for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis

Rates of death and illness remained 'substantial' even at higher CD4 cell counts among people receiving antiretroviral therapy in lower-income settings, and much greater efforts to get people onto treatment earlier will be needed to reduce this burden in people living with HIV, according to findings of an international review of treatment outcomes in seven countries published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

While donor funding for global health rose steeply in the last decade, “the era of rapid growth has come to an end,” this analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation says. It tracks spending on basic health care, health workforce, HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, nutrition, and other needs during the first decade of this century, and finds year to year increases reached their height in 2007, and have declined each year since.

6 February - Geneva - A group of tuberculosis (TB) activists have issued a Declaration of Intent that commits them to restructuring the Community Task Force (CTF) into a broader global coalition to represent communities affected by TB, multidrug-resistant TB and TB/HIV.

Mario Raviglione, director of the WHO's Stop TB Department: “My aim is to reach a consensus right now. If we wait, we may miss the train.”

There are scant data for second-line TB drugs in children and there is very little to guide use of even first-line ones in neonates and infants with low birth weight.

Today, NGOs, patients and average Ukrainians appealed to the President of Ukraine with an open letter, calling to cancel the Law № 5038-VI, which will lead to a significant increase in drug prices, and due to which some drugs will disappear from pharmacy shelves.

The heads of state of the African Union (AU), the regional body working on African integration, have decided to proceed with the establishment of a Pan-African Intellectual Property Office (PAIPO), despite misgivings about the potential impact on their local economies.