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Global Fund working to fight malaria in Latin America

In the ONE blog, Deborah Derrick, president of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, writes about how the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is working to prevent malaria in Latin America.

23 Apr 2013

National Foundation for Infectious Diseases to host 16th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research

The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases will host the 16th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research, April 22-24, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD.

22 Apr 2013

Donors must 'seize this opportunity' to fully support the Global Fund

At a recent donor conference in Brussels, Belgium, "the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria presented a compelling case for funding the organization to not only tackle these diseases but also to accelerate gains against them.

22 Apr 2013

Study: Use of anti-TNF therapies in RA patients does not increase risk of herpes zoster

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who initiated use of anti-tumor necrosis factor therapies were not at a higher risk of developing herpes zoster (shingles), compared with patients who initiated nonbiologic treatment regimens, according to research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the Oregon Health and Science University. The findings appeared in the March 6, 2013, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

22 Apr 2013

Reports examine issues of HIV treatment among prisoners, sex workers, sexual minorities in Zambia

"The recent arrest of Zambian HIV treatment and human rights advocate Paul Kasonkomona for only talking about legal barriers to HIV and other health services for Zambians who are prisoners, sex workers or members of sexual minorities, raises the question of how those barriers can be addressed by the country's board charged with distributing money from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria" -- the Country Coordinating Mechanism, the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog writes.

20 Apr 2013

Sustain U.S. global AIDS financing to achieve AIDS-free generation

"The persistent shortchanging of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, is one of the more significant and perplexing trends in America's global health policy," Chris Collins, vice president and director of public policy at amfAR: The Foundation for AIDS Research, writes in the Huffington Post's "The Big Push" blog.

20 Apr 2013

Key points about the Global Fund from Executive Director Dybul

Writing in the International Health Policies blog, Rachel Hammonds of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Belgium, writes about a "panel discussion organized by several [members of the European Parliament], the Stop Aids Alliance and others at the European Parliament on 8 April" that discussed the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

19 Apr 2013

President Obama's budget request signals confidence in Global Fund

President Obama's "budget request demonstrates a strong and well-timed endorsement of the Global Fund [to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria] in advance of the replenishment, and will hopefully leverage similarly strong pledges from other donors," Amanda Glassman, director of global health policy and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, and Jenny Ottenhoff, policy outreach associate at the center, write in the CGD's "Global Health Policy" blog.

18 Apr 2013

Examining function of all genes in zebrafish genome could benefit human health, researchers say

Equipped with the zebrafish genome, researchers have designed a method to assay the function of each and every gene and to explore the effects genetic variation has on zebrafish.

18 Apr 2013

Researchers study how airborne infections spread in naturally ventilated hospital wards

The chance of infection in some hospital wards varies dramatically according to whether the nurses leave the windows open.

17 Apr 2013

Global Fund has achieved impressive results, but more work remains

"This week I had the pleasure to host a preparatory meeting between donors of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria," European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs writes in the Huffington Post's "The Big Push" blog.

16 Apr 2013

Pneumococcal vaccine: an interview with Graham Clarke, CEO ImmBio

The pathogen that we are talking about is called streptococcus pneumoniae. That is a fairly common bacteria and if you did a nasal swab you would find that quite a lot of people have this bacterium living in their nasal passages.

16 Apr 2013

Malaria control strategies must adapt to rapidly changing patterns of infection

Malaria control strategies must keep up with the rapidly changing patterns of malaria infection in low transmission settings, according to the authors of a new Review, published in The Lancet. Whereas women and young children suffer from the greatest burden of malaria in high transmission areas, an increasing proportion of malaria cases in low transmission settings are occurring in adult men, sometimes concentrated in small geographic areas and sharing certain occupations or behaviours.

15 Apr 2013

President's FY14 budget proposal encourages more donation to Global Fund

By proposing $1.65 billion for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria "in his 2014 budget request to Congress, President Obama gave the world the next big shove it needs to control and end AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria," Kolleen Bouchane, director of ACTION, writes in the Huffington Post's "The Big Push" blog.

15 Apr 2013

FDA accepts Otsuka Pharmaceutical's tolvaptan NDA for priority review

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted for priority review the company's new drug application for the potential use of tolvaptan for the treatment of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

15 Apr 2013