Global Health Initiative

3-10-2017Editor’s Note: Today we observe National Women and Girls HIV AIDS Awareness Day and on Tuesday we observed International Women’s Day. Read below to learn mo…

1-24-2017Editor's Note: The following blog provides information about a federal partner's digital efforts. Throughout the year we will share information from other feder…

1-18-2017CDC/Emory/NIH study published in The New England Journal of Medicine adds to growing body of evidence that extensively drug-resistant TB is fueled more by direc…

12-1-2016Summary: Mental and substance use disorders can increase vulnerability to acquiring HIV infection and they can pose serious barriers to successful management of…

12-1-2016As we mark World AIDS Day, we reflect on how far we’ve come and acknowledge the profound challenges that still remain. The scientific progress we’ve made si…

10-18-2016Editor's Note: Today we share how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is using social media to highlight thirty years of their investment into…

7-20-2016USAID is among the many federal agencies engaged in the response to HIV around the globe. One of the PEPFAR implementing agencies, USAID is marking its 30th ann…

7-19-2016During the Tuesday's activities at AIDS 2016 in Durban, South Africa, we had a chance to speak with Marie McLeod, Director of Global Health and HIV Office at …

7-18-2016NIH Clinical Trial Will Clarify Relationship between Ring Adherence, HIV Infection RiskA new exploratory analysis of data from the ASPIRE study has found that u…

6-8-2016Scanning electromicrograph of an HIV-infected T cell/NIAIDAlmost 37 million people around the world are now infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), th…