USAID has long been in Trump’s sights. The right-wing manifesto Project 2025 called for “freezing of foreign aid pending a review by political appointees” and undoing “the gross misuse of foreign aid ...

UNAIDS estimates that under two-thirds (64%) of women living with HIV in Asia Pacific receive treatment to prevent transmission to their babies. This is far lower than the global average of 84%. Ms ...

Without public health surveillance, officials trying to tackle outbreaks, identify threats and evaluate treatments are working ‘in the darkness of ignorance.’ ...

Enormous progress has been made in tackling the global HIV epidemics over the past two decades. The number of people dying ...

King Holmes, MD, PhD, an infectious diseases physician and researcher who helped create modern STI research and was a central figure in the early AIDS epidemic, died Sunday at the age of 87 years ...

As the world still reels from its side effects, a new bat virus HKU5-CoV2 has been found in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. As soon as the news surfaced about the discovery, it did trigger ...

For decades, HIV experts had dreamed of an elusive vaccine to block the ongoing chain of infections, which still sees more than 1 million people worldwide contract the virus annually. Bekker ...

A newly discovered bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, similar to the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been identified in China. The discovery was made by a team of virologists led by Shi ...

Published in the journal Cell, the study highlights that the bat virus, named HKU5-CoV-2, shares a key feature with SARS-CoV-2 — the furin cleavage site — which aids in cell entry via the ACE2 ...

Abrupt disruptions to foreign aid and service delivery threaten the gains achieved in controlling new HIV infections, AIDS-related deaths, tuberculosis, malaria, Hepatitis B and C, and other such ...

In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus ...