Infectious Diseases
Scientists see new hope in fight against HIV and TB
Published in Vaccine Weekly, June 9th, 2010
As US policymakers consider scaling back on its historic initiative to fight AIDS around the world and downsizing goals to combat tuberculosis, next-generation treatment and prevention strategies to significantly reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis are now imminent. New science can dramatically change the trajectory of both deadly epidemics, according to a special new issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Breakthroughs on the horizon, say the authors, include novel TB drugs in the pipeline that offer the hope of a safer, faster cure for both standard TB and drug-resistant TB; TB diagnostic tests that shrink the time it takes to diagnose...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2010-06-09)
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