Climate change affects global action against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 18 Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria, warned that climate change and armed conflict are affecting global efforts to fight these three dangerous infectious diseases.This is the headquarters building of the United Nations Programme on AIDS in Geneva, Switzerland, on July 13...
The Gates Foundation announced its support for the launch of phase III clinical trial of tuberculosis candidate vaccine
On June 28, the Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda French Gates Foundation announced that they would provide funds to support the phase III clinical trial of tuberculosis candidate vaccine M72/AS01E (M72). If proved effective, M72 is expected to become the first new vaccine to prevent tuberculosis since the BCG vaccine vaccine was introduced in 1921...