New Delhi: India recorded an estimated 2.22 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases in 2023, the highest in any country, according to a new analysis published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. While ...

Since 2003, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has made transformative investments to address the global human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic. 1 PEPFAR has expanded ...

Current tuberculosis infection tests struggle to detect the disease in those with HIV. A common co-infection, HIV can hide TB from traditional tests by eliminating the immune cells relied upon to ...

Sepsis is a leading global cause of hospital deaths, occurring when the body's response to infection damages tissue and causes organs to fail. Africa bears the world's highest burden of sepsis, with ...

Background: Diagnosis and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is the most effective strategy to control tuberculosis (TB) among patients with HIV infection. The tuberculin skin test (TST ...

Tuberculosis, HIV, and tobacco use are among the leading causes of death globally. Biologic, sociobehavioral, and systemic factors drive the convergence of tuberculosis, HIV, and tobacco use, and the ...

As World Hepatitis Day falls on 28 July, the global health community confronts a stark reality: the science to eliminate ...

When threatened, the bombardier beetle launches a noxious chemical spray by combining two compounds in its abdomen—a natural defense mechanism that doesn’t require external power. It was this beetle’s ...

Tuberculosis and us — we go way back. Way, way back: Biomolecular evidence suggests that the bacterium responsible, Mycobacterium tuberculosis or an ancestor, might have hitched its wagon to ...

Sepsis is a leading global cause of hospital deaths, occurring when the body's response to infection damages tissue and causes organs to fail. Africa bears the world's highest burden of sepsis, with ...