The Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria : Past Progress and Hope for the Future

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The Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria : Past Progress and Hope for the Future

Each year, 2.5 million people become infected with HIV, 8 million contract tuberculosis (TB), and between 300 million and 500 million fall ill from malaria. Together, these diseases kill more than 5 million people per year, the equivalent of a full 747 airplane crashing every 44 minutes1.

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Medical personnel on forced leave, HIV infected in panic: Although some treatment programs continue, the freezing of US aid for HIV infected people in Africa is dramatic.

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US aid funding cuts like ‘a hurricane’ across effective HIV programmes

Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman says their partners are impactful, efficient

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PBS News Hour | HIV returns in young child believed cured

HIV rebound in young child is ‘another step’ in long process of AIDS research

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Updates in the Treatment of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

The latest Bench to Bedside column reviews new guidance on the treatment of drug-susceptible and drug-resistance Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections.

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The value of knowing is not always positive – Healthcare Economist

An interesting article by Ciancio et al. (2025) which examines the impact of learning one has HIV when no treatment is available. When there is no treatment available for a life-threatening disease, providing personal health information could lead to despair or fatalistic behaviors resulting in negative health outcomes. We document this possibility utilizing an experiment in Malawi that randomized incentives to learn HIV testing results in a con…