Dr. Jean William “Bill” Pape, founder of GHESKIO health clinics in Haiti, has provided free healthcare services for over four decades, pioneering treatments for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and cardiovascular disease while facing unprecedented challenges.
Dr. Le, working in Vietnam and the US, has devoted her career to finding better diagnostics and treatments for talaromycosis, a rare and usually fatal fungal disease in HIV-infected people.
The NIH 5-year, $2.8m grant to Wits University and Vanderbilt University will advance traditional health practitioner-initiated HIV testing.
The WHO has recognized Namibia’s significant progress in reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV and hepatitis B, setting an example for other African countries to follow.
Making a health care island of HIV control has held back efforts to catch and treat related illnesses, advocates say. That’s about to change.