By Katare MbashiruDodoma. The Tanzania Non-Communicable Disease Alliance (TANCDA) has intensified its call for a comprehensive legal and policy framework to tackle the country’s rapidly growing burden ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major unrecognized cause of deadly sepsis among people with HIV in Africa, a sweeping new study reveals. Beginning treatment for TB immediately – even before sepsis patients are ...

One in four TB deaths worldwide is HIV related, the international health agency said in its 2009 Global TB Control Report released Tuesday. That's twice as many as had been recogn ...

Participants described barriers including stigma, nondisclosure, logistical and financial constraints, fragmented services, psychological burden, and reliance on spiritual healing. Facilitators ...

As the world observes HIV/AIDS Awareness Month, attention turns to education, stigma reduction, and empowering communities to confront the epidemic. Recognized each December in the United States, this ...

I’ve spent much of my career caring for people in places most Americans never see. I’ve worked in refugee camps, on the streets of large cities, in rural communities cut off from care, in clinics ...

Communities across the globe commemorated World AIDS Day, reaffirming a commitment to end an epidemic that has killed more than 44 million. But this year, for the first time in decades, the U.S.

Masonia Traylor folded into a ball in the corner of the patient room. "No," the 23-year-old screamed, over and over again. She was HIV-positive. It came as a surprise to the now 38-year-old from ...

On World AIDS Day, advocates warn federal cuts could reverse progress. Carole Treston had been a nurse early in her career when she and her mother traveled to Washington, D.C., and saw the AIDS ...

In 1981 during my first pregnancy, news of young gay men dying from strange infections and rare cancers was scarcely making the headlines. At that time, I was involved in an evangelical church. Soon ...

The artwork Elton John has displayed on the walls of his home in the Hollywood Hills wasn’t necessarily intended to reinforce a running theme. Yet you can’t help noticing how some of the paintings ...

Violent protests and arrests have shaken Tanzania since the controversial presidential elections at the end of October. Given the uncertain situation on the ground, travelers planning a trip to ...