• NIAID Advances Efforts to Restructure Clinical Trials Networks with Funding Announcements

    Updated: 2012-02-03 22:29:13
    Over the past year and a half, many of you followed the AIDS.gov blog post series Future Directions for NIAID HIV Research by Dr. Carl Dieffenbach, Director of the Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at NIH. Last week, NIAID advanced those efforts by issuing several requests for applications (RFAs)...

  • HIV docs tell a powerful tale of combination prevention

    Updated: 2012-02-03 15:30:04
    “This is an extraordinary moment in the AIDS epidemic – we finally have the tools to turn the tide,” said Diane Havlir, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, speaking to the arsenal of HIV prevention interventions the AIDS community now has at its disposal to combat new infections worldwide. She spoke alongside a [...](Read more...)

  • Partnering With Business To Eliminate Pediatric AIDS by 2015

    Updated: 2012-02-02 23:41:55
    Last week, I was proud to participate in a significant moment in the global AIDS response. I stood with leaders of the private sector at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as they committed to join forces to reach an ambitious, yet achievable, goal — ending pediatric AIDS by 2015. The launch of two...

  • FDA Encourages Whistleblowers, Just Not Its Own

    Updated: 2012-02-02 21:20:43
    As part of Ranbaxy’s recently announced consent decree, the company is required to set up a program whereby whistleblowers can come forward with information related to potential violations of the Food, Drug, and  Cosmetic Act. According to the decree, available through Pharmalot’s post, Ranbaxy must, within 75 days, establish a ...

  • Inaccurate TB blood tests commonplace in many TB high-burden countries

    Updated: 2012-02-02 17:19:03
    Although recent press attention has highlighted the problematic use of TB serological tests by medical providers in India, a new paper in The European Respiratory Journal (Widespread use of serological tests for tuberculosis: data from 22 high-burden countries) demonstrates that the use of these tests is much wider spread. Drs. J. Grenier and M. Pai conducted [...](Read more...)

  • U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator touts progress in HIV prevention in PEPFAR countries

    Updated: 2012-02-01 23:13:25
    U.S. Global AIDS Ambassador Eric Goosby joined other HIV physician-scientists on Capitol Hill Wednesday to discuss the various evidence-based approaches to prevent HIV infection that the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program is implementing on the ground in the countries hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic. The briefing was the first in [...](Read more...)

  • NIAID announces funding ops for HIV Clinical Trial Networks, including TB and Hepatitis

    Updated: 2012-02-01 23:05:42
    , : 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 . HIV AIDS NIAID announces funding ops for HIV Clinical Trial Networks , including TB and Hepatitis By Christine Lubinski February 1, 2012 Post a comment The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIAID part of the National Institutes of Health NIH and the leading funder of AIDS research , issued long-awaited funding announcements to create leadership groups for clinical research networks in HIV that will also address tuberculosis TB and hepatitis—leading co-morbidities in persons with HIV . infection Requests for applications have been released for the following clinical research : networks HIV and HIV-Associated Infections in

  • Strategy in Action: HIV Testing Innovations Contribute to NHAS Goal

    Updated: 2012-02-01 17:10:17
    With an estimated 20 percent of people living with HIV in the United States unaware of their status, strengthening our HIV testing efforts will be key to achieving the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS). Fortunately, many innovative HIV testing efforts are underway in communities across the country. HIV testing is integral to HIV...

  • Taking the AIDS.gov HIV/AIDS Prevention & Service Provider Locator to Facebook

    Updated: 2012-02-01 03:37:36
    Eight hundred million people are active users of Facebook , according to the site’s own statistics. That’s one in nine people living today. Of those 800 million, over 50% check their account on a daily basis. Because it serves as a connecting point for millions, we developed a Facebook app with our HIV/AIDS Prevention and...

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

    Updated: 2012-01-31 21:21:47
    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...)

  • 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...

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

    Updated: 2012-01-12 20:53:18
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