• How Science and Strategic Collaboration Led to a New, “Personalized” Cystic Fibrosis Treatment for Some Patients

    Updated: 2012-01-31 21:21:45
    written by Janet Woodcock, MD, Director for FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Targeting a drug for small subgroups of patients is a new way to find effective therapies. This is often called personalized medicine, and it’s one of today’s most promising areas of new drug development. Last year, FDA ...

  • Roche Makes Bid to Advance Position in Personalized Medicine

    Updated: 2012-01-31 13:20:42
    Personalized medicine, which targets individualized treatment and care based on personal and genetic variations, holds much promise for the pharmaceutical industry. Several pharmaceutical majors continue to invest in this emerging field as evident by Roche's $5.7-billion bid last week for Illumina, a provider of gene-sequencing tools and related ...

  • Adenovirus Vaccine Addendum: Chimp-Based Vector Shows Promise

    Updated: 2012-01-27 23:05:00

  • Personalizing for Better Products

    Updated: 2012-01-27 20:21:33
    Pharmaceutical drug development is becoming more and more expensive, with a high incidence of products failing late-stage trials. Governments and healthcare payers are demanding medicines that offer a balance of benefit and cost. Could personalized medicines and diagnostics offer a solution to both? In April 2011, the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal ...

  • CDC economic models show HIV treatment scale-up is cost-effective, can save money over time

    Updated: 2012-01-27 20:03:24
    New economic modeling shows that scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in the developing world not only saves lives, but saves money too. Dr. John Blandford of  the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Global Health and his team of colleagues have found that cost savings from averted negative [...](Read more...)

  • AIDS 2012 Plenary Speakers Announced

    Updated: 2012-01-27 15:24:29
    Today’s announcement (PDF 215KB) of plenary speakers is a clear indication of how AIDS 2012 is shaping up to be one of the strongest International AIDS Conferences yet, with 15 world-renowned experts tapped to speak on a range of key issues related to the global and U.S. response to AIDS.  Under the plenary theme of...

  • Gates gives $750 million to the Global Fund, Patient with deadly TB strain in India tests positive for HIV, and more…

    Updated: 2012-01-26 19:11:56
    , , : Science Speaks : HIV TB News A project of the Center for Global Health Policy Search Search : for Go Home About Liveblog Archives you’re reading . What we're reading Gates gives 750 million to the Global Fund , Patient with deadly TB strain in India tests positive for HIV , and more By Meredith Mazzotta January 26, 2012 Post a comment The following is a compilation of recent articles and releases making headlines in HIV , TB and global health . news Gates Injects 750 Million in Troubled Global Fund The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation announced Thursday that has committed 750 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS , Tuberculosis and Malaria , what Bill Gates called , one of the most effective ways we invest our money every year . Gates made the announcement at the World Economic Forum

  • PACHA Blog: CMS Care Innovations Summit

    Updated: 2012-01-26 13:08:40
    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the HHS Office of the National Coordinator are hosting the first “Care Innovations Summit” in Washington, DC today to “showcase innovative work in care delivery and payment.” The Summit will bring together leading innovators from inside and outside the healthcare industry to encourage and promote knowledge-sharing,...

  • HRSA Announces $70M Grant Competition for HIV/AIDS Services for Women, Infants, Children and Youth

    Updated: 2012-01-25 22:38:06
    Last week, the HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D Grants for Coordinated HIV Services and Access to Research for Women, Infants, Children, and Youth (WICY). According to HRSA the entire $70 million Part D program is...

  • MSF reports “horrific” HIV treatment access in Congo

    Updated: 2012-01-25 20:29:18
    “The conditions surrounding access to care for people living with HIV/AIDS in [the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)] are horrific,” according to a press release issued Wednesday from the international humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors without Borders. With more than 1 million people infected with HIV in the African nation, 350,000 could [...](Read more...)

  • Bring Manufacturing Back, Orders Obama

    Updated: 2012-01-25 19:22:46
    Last night, President Obama issued a call to action for manufacturers that involves reducing outsourcing. His 2012 State of the Union address provided a blueprint for rebuilding America’s economy—and a large component is of that plan is to bring manufacturing back to the US. “Tonight, my message to business leaders ...

  • New Media in Action at the 2012 National African American MSM Leadership Conference

    Updated: 2012-01-25 00:46:15
    More than 350 people attended the National African American MSM Leadership Conference on HIV/AIDS and Other Health Disparities in New Orleans last week. The theme of the conference was “Forward Together – Engaging Our Future Leaders.” We hosted a social media lab where we provided small group technical assistance on using new media in response...

  • New Study Undermines Claim that Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells Represent an HIV Reservoir

    Updated: 2012-01-24 21:55:18

  • (Updated) Michel Kazatchkine to step down as head of the Global Fund

    Updated: 2012-01-24 18:09:04
    Updated 3:30 pm EASTERN Dr. Michel Kazatchkine – executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria –  announced Tuesday that he will be resigning from his post in mid-March. A statement from Kazatchkine posted today on The Global Fund website explains Kazatchine’s decision was motivated by the appointment of a managing [...](Read more...)

  • USAID engages higher education and research institutions to help solve development problems

    Updated: 2012-01-24 16:30:21
    : Science Speaks : HIV TB News A project of the Center for Global Health Policy Search Search : for Go Home About Liveblog Archives you’re reading . Global Health USAID engages higher education and research institutions to help solve development problems By Meredith Mazzotta January 24, 2012 Post a comment The U.S . Agency for International Development USAID has launched a new initiative to recruit higher education and research institutions to improve the agency’s and the broader development community’s ability to solve large development . problems We hope to bring together all components of the campus from engineering to anthropology , from global health to entrepreneurship , and from agriculture to environment to focus on the problems that impede humanity’s advancement , according to an

  • Register Now: The Graying of HIV/AIDS Webinar

    Updated: 2012-01-24 14:00:04
    The Administration on Aging (AoA) will host a free webinar “The Graying of HIV/AIDS: Community Resources for the Aging Services Network” on Wednesday January 25th from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern. Register here. This session will explore community programs and resources associated with positive aging and HIV prevention, including the new AoA Older Adults...

  • Save the Date! Lobby Days 2012: April 18

    Updated: 2012-01-23 16:50:45
           Save the Date! Calling all HIV/AIDS Advocates!read more

  • The Promise and Pitfalls of Adenoviruses as Vaccine Vectors

    Updated: 2012-01-20 19:59:17

  • Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation celebrates success of Project HEART

    Updated: 2012-01-20 18:59:47
    The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) celebrated the success of their eight-year project to scale up HIV prevention, care and treatment services in five countries at an all-day event Thursday. Helping put more than 500,000 people living with HIV on lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART), the “Help Expand Antiretroviral Therapy to children and families” (HEART) [...](Read more...)

  • Global HIV program funding struggles to reach men who have sex with men

    Updated: 2012-01-19 19:51:10
    The goal of an AIDS-free generation stands to fail unless critical changes are made to address stigma and discrimination against gay men and men who have sex with men (MSM). That’s according to a new report from the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...(Read more...)

  • Experts give a status report on development assistance for health

    Updated: 2012-01-19 19:09:54
    In 2011, donors provided $27.73 billion for development assistance for health – a marginal increase over 2010. Nevertheless the current growth trajectory over the last three years is more akin to the growth of health assistance in the 1990s than the dramatic upswing in aid seen in the first decade of the 21st century.  Christopher [...](Read more...)

  • WHO posts FAQ on Totally Drug Resistant TB; Advances in diagnosing pulmonary TB in kids; and more…

    Updated: 2012-01-18 14:00:03
    The following is a compilation of recent articles and releases making headlines in HIV, TB and global health news. WHO releases FAQ on “Totally Drug Resistant” TB: The World Health Organization (WHO) posted a frequently asked questions (FAQ) on tuberculosis that is “resistant to all drugs” on its website last week. This follows recent reports [...](Read more...)

  • Social Media at the 2012 National African American MSM Leadership Conference

    Updated: 2012-01-18 00:05:48
    This week, AIDS.gov is attending the 9th Annual National African American MSM Leadership Conference on HIV/AIDS and other Health Disparities in New Orleans, Louisiana. From January 19-22, hundreds of federal, state, and local health officials, service providers, and community leaders will gather under the charge “Forward Together – Engaging our Future Leaders.” In addition to...

  • Physician in India discusses “Totally” Drug Resistant TB – Perspective from Mumbai’s Hinduja Hospital

    Updated: 2012-01-13 19:59:20
    Dr. Zarir F. Udwadia, a consultant chest physician at Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai. News reports of at least a dozen cases of “totally drug resistant” tuberculosis (TB) in India recently have raised various questions, including why India and why now?  In a letter to the editor in December’s issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases [...](Read more...)

  • Launch of the Frontline Healthcare Workers Coalition

    Updated: 2012-01-12 22:10:42
    Frontline health workers are an essential component of health systems worldwide — without them, there is no access to care for people living with HIV or anyone else. Yet in 2012, the World Health Organization estimates a shortage of at least one million frontline health workers worldwide, with Africa the region in greatest need. PEPFAR,...

  • Come to Pizza and Policy January 23 at 5:00 p.m.

    Updated: 2012-01-12 20:53:18
    Pizza & Policy: The (usually) perfect duoread more

  • Interactive Access to CDC’s HIV and STD Data

    Updated: 2012-01-11 22:35:03
    (from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a new interactive web tool—the NCHHSTP Atlas—that allows users to create maps, charts, and tables using HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted disease (STD) data collected by CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP)....

  • Persistence, Promise, and Hope for the End: A New Year’s Message

    Updated: 2012-01-11 14:00:41
    In the tumult of the holiday shopping, seasonal traffic delays, and endless bowls of eggnog, it was easy to miss the news that Science—one of the world’s leading scientific research journals—had chosen an HIV-related clinical trial as its 2011 Breakthrough of the Year . I caught that news while trying to wrap up some last-minute...

  • Mycoplasma genitalium, Schistosoma haematobium, and HIV Acquisition Risk

    Updated: 2012-01-04 20:05:48

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