In 2023, after a brief hiatus, tuberculosis regained from COVID its status as the world’s deadliest infectious disease—a ...
Nearly 85% of the 1.7 million adolescents with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa, along with half of the nearly 40 million ...
King Holmes, MD, PhD, an infectious diseases physician ... in the early AIDS epidemic, died Sunday at the age of 87 years, the University of Washington announced. Home-based HIV counseling and ...
Efavirenz, an HIV drug, shows potential for treating chikungunya virus, inhibiting replication and reducing viral load ...
Nearly half of all new cases in 2022 were in the South. "The frustrating part is we have the tools now to stop it." ...
Debates over tuberculosis reporting began in the late 19th century, when the bacterial infection was reframed not as a disease of the elite but of the urban poor. New York City was the first in the ...
AIDS arrived as American politics took a sharp conservative turn with the election of President Ronald Reagan. When in 1985 it became possible to test for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS ...