Women, especially those 50 years or older, with overt acute hepatitis B were significantly more likely to develop decompensation, according to the results of a recent study. “This is an unexpected finding. The results suggest that HBV preventive measures are even more important for females,” Ming-Ling ...

Kaiser Family Foundation: The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) This updated fact sheet examines the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and its role in addressing global HIV/AIDS, including treatment and prevention targets, results, funding, and challenges (4/5). Source

Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, published Issue 308 of the “Global Fund Observer.” The newsletter features articles on various topics, including a news article on how the Trump administration’s budget proposals will impact the Global Fund, ...

On 31 March 2017, WHO for the first time prequalified a generic active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) for hepatitis C – sofosbuvir. Sofosbuvir is an essential ingredient for new, highly effective medicines to treat hepatitis C called direct active antivirals (DAAs). The prequalified product’s manufacturer is ...

The starting point for this guideline is the point at which a woman has learnt that she is living with HIV, and it therefore covers key issues for providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights-related services and support for women living with HIV. As ...

UN Population Fund rejects state department’s claim that agency backs “coercive abortion or involuntary sterilisation”. The state department has announced it is ending US funding for the United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA), the international body’s agency focused on family planning as well as maternal and child ...

A new report from Public Citizen, the US-based consumer rights advocacy group, shows that the 20 largest pharmaceutical corporations are spending significantly less on research and development of new medicines than they are making in profits. The report shows that, on average for these top companies, ...

To end the TB epidemic, Ukraine has only one recipe – to implement quality people-centered TB care! This statement was made by Andriy Klepikov, Executive Director of the Alliance for Public Health at the press conference to mark World Tuberculosis Day. “Within its pilot projects supported ...

To mark World TB Day, 24 March 2017, the International Journal of Infectious Diseases published a special issue on TB. It highlights the Advances, Challenges and Opportunities in the ‘End TB’ Era through publishing 42 articles by a distinguished global authorship. The series of articles review progress ...