Gerard Gallagher

A 21-year-old man became the latest person potentially cured of HIV after receiving stem cells from a donor with a rare mutation that makes people naturally resistant to the virus, physicians reported Monday.

Disruptions to funding and new policies aimed at aligning foreign aid programs with the Trump administration’s agenda have had a broad and negative impact on a critical global HIV/AIDS treatment program, new research showed.According to survey responses from more than 160 facilities in dozens of countries, 77% of implementing partners of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS

Erica Schwartz, MD, JD, MPH, received bipartisan support from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee on Wednesday on her nomination for CDC director.

Federal officials said this week that the United States will release $600 million in held-up funding to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance — another sign

Health officials in Michigan reported the deaths of two people who had cyclosporiasis — the first deaths linked to the ongoing outbreak of the diarrheal illness that has impacted at least nine states.

Erica Schwartz, MD, JD, MPH, will become the first full-time director of the CDC in nearly 1 year after senators confirmed her to the post on Wednesday, largely along party lines.

President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order Monday recommending that the U.S. reduce the number of vaccines recommended for all children despite scientific evidence that the current vaccine schedule is safe.

Two people have died in a growing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania.

The FDA has extended its approval of dolutegravir tablets for oral suspension to treat newborns with HIV.

In March 2020, as COVID-19 surged around the globe, Dolly Parton announced that she was making a $1 million donation to Vanderbilt University Medical Center to support research into treatments for the new coronavirus.