UN: AIDS Deaths Down, Treatment Up in Africa
Date posted here: 22 May 2013
Date published at source: 22 May 2013
VOA

A new United Nations report says AIDS-related deaths in Africa are falling while the number of Africans getting treatment for the AIDS virus is on the rise.

Researchers map tuberculosis pathogen
Date posted here: 17 May 2013
Date published at source: 16 May 2013
The Conversation

 

Researchers in Switzerland have successfully mapped coordinates for all proteins of the tuberculosis pathogen Mycobaterium turberculosis.

Russia has 'no anti-AIDS strategy'
Date posted here: 17 May 2013
Date published at source: 16 May 2013
Global Post

There is no government strategy to fight the spread of AIDS in Russia, where the number of deaths caused by the disease continues to grow, a senior healthcare official said on Thursday.

Zimbabwe’s sustained progress towards “Getting to Zero”
Date posted here: 15 May 2013
Date published at source: 15 May 2013
UNAIDS

Zimbabwe is an example of political commitment and progress in the AIDS response, the UNAIDS has said.

North Korea sees surge of drug-resistant tuberculosis
Date posted here: 10 May 2013
Date published at source: 10 May 2013
Global Post

North Korea is facing a surge of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDRTB, an aid group has warned.

Low-cost diagnosis heralds new phase in battle against smear-negative tuberculosis
Date posted here: 9 May 2013
Date published at source: 9 May 2013
Health Canal

Researchers at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) have successfully developed and tested a combination of simple clinical, radiological and laboratory tools to diagnose smear-negative tuberculosis (SN-TB).

‘Worse than AIDS’ - sex 'superbug' discovered in Japan called disaster in waiting
Date posted here: 7 May 2013
Date published at source: 7 May 2013
RT

Doctors are warning that a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea could be more deadly than AIDS, and are urging members of US Congress to spend $54 million for the development of a drug that would fight it.