PrEP use high but wanes after three months among young African women
In a study of open-label Truvada as daily pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV among 427 young African women and adolescent girls, 95% initiated the HIV prevention strategy, and most used PrEP for the first three months. However, PrEP use...
Connection to HIV care helps hardly reached US populations suppress the virus
Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men and transgender women with HIV, who are not in care, can be engaged in care when reached and connected with HIV treatment services, according to findings from a clinical trial supported by the National...
Geneva Palais briefing note on the impact of the Ebola outbreak on children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jean-Pierre Masuku, UNICEF’s Ebola Outreach Officer in North Kivu in The Democratic Republic of the Congo, discusses...
NIH enables imaging in lifestyle interventions trial for Alzheimer’s disease
The National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded the University of California, Berkeley a grant to capture PET and MRI images of participants in the U.S. Protect Brain Health through lifestyle Intervention to...
World Bank Mobilizes US$300 Million to Finance the Ebola Response in Democratic Republic of Congo
The World Bank Group announced on July 24, that it is mobilizing up to US$300 million to scale up support for the global response to the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The announcement follows the declaration by the World...
Senior UN officials call for return to sea rescues, after ‘the worst Mediterranean tragedy of this year’
A woman weeps, minutes after being saved by the Sea Watch search and rescue ship, in Libya....
WHO launches new report on the global tobacco epidemic
Many governments are making progress in the fight against tobacco, with 5 billion people today living in countries that have introduced smoking bans, graphic warnings on packaging and other effective tobacco control measures - four times more people...
Report: Dry AMD requires broad, systems biology approach leveraging big data, multiple disciplines
A large-scale, collaborative, systems biology approach is needed to expedite the discovery of treatments for dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) – a leading cause of blindness among people 65 and older for which is there is no treatment—...
WHO urges countries to invest in eliminating hepatitis
Ahead of World Hepatitis Day (28 July), WHO calls on countries to take advantage of recent reductions in the costs of diagnosing and treating viral hepatitis and scale up investments in disease elimination.
WHO applauds Rwanda’s Ebola preparedness efforts
WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today commended Rwanda on its ongoing Ebola preparedness efforts and confirmed that no cases of Ebola have been reported from the country to date.
