Monitoring Health Disparities to Prevent Disease
11-27-2018A CDC-sponsored special issue of the American Journal of Public Health presents emerging and best-available methods, metrics, and indicators for moni…
Tuberculosis
CDC’s Hank Tomlinson Live from AIDS 2018 on Successes in the Global Response to HIV (Video)
7-25-2018To discuss news about the global response to HIV coming out of the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) today, we spoke with Hank Tomlinson, PhD, Dire…
Latent TB Infection and HIV? CDC Has Updated Recommendations
7-12-2018The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated recommendations for use of once-weekly isoniazid-rifapentine for 12 weeks (3HP) for treatm…
A Message from CDC Leadership on World TB Day
3-23-2018On World Tuberculosis Day 2018, we find ourselves at a critical moment in the global fight against this curable and preventable infectious disease. We can find,…
HIV Research Highlights from First Day of CROI 2018 (Video)
3-6-2018Advances in HIV research are being shared this week at the 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston, and HIV.gov is here sh…
One-Month Tuberculosis Prophylaxis as Effective as Nine-Month Regimen for People Living with HIV
3-5-2018A one-month antibiotic regimen to prevent active tuberculosis (TB) disease was at least as safe and effective as the standard nine-month therapy for people livi…
#PEPFAR15: 15 Years of Saving Lives through American Generosity and Partnerships
2-8-2018Under the leadership of President Donald Trump, and thanks to the generosity of the American people, 13 high-HIV-burden countries are now poised to achieve epid…
HIV Care and Treatment Activities
5-20-2017HIV is a virus that can multiply quickly and damage the body’s immune system, making it hard to fight off infections and cancers. While no cure exists for HIV…
World TB Day Statement
3-22-2017As we approach World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24th, Dr. Rebecca Martin, Director of CDC’s Center for Global Health, has provided a statement that reflec…
South African Study Provides Compelling New Evidence on Role of Person-to Person Transmission in Drug-Resistant TB Epidemics
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…