Infectious Diseases

A mother at Kakuma District Hospital, Kenya, is happy that her child is HIV-free, thanks to prevention of mother-to-child transmission services. Eric Bond/Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation 2019.

Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Is Creeping Back—Here’s How to Stop It

The measles virus, paramyxoviridae from the Morbillivirus family, transmission microscopy view. Image: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty

The Myth about Herd Immunity

Itayi, 16, and Alice, 13, serve as youth ambassadors raising awareness of HIV in in Mozambique. Image: In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images

We Can Beat AIDS with Youth in the Lead

Philippine medical workers donned protective suits during a press conference by health officials on the country's preparedness against Ebola on October 21, 2014. Image: Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty

No Country is Fully Prepared for High-Consequence Infectious Disease Outbreaks

A CDC scientist demonstrates a lab technique called “candling,” to gauge the egg's suitability for use in growing flu viruses. Image: CDC/ Robert Denty

Flu Season in N. America: 5 Facts

Indonesian authorities check body temperatures of airline passengers on May 15, 2019 after a Nigerian man infected with monkeypox was diagnosed in Singapore. (Image: Aditya Irawan/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Global Health Security Starts with Countries

Sixta Bucardo holds her 18-month-old son Llilmer Parrilla Bucardo in Leon Province, Nicaragua on July 29, 2009. Oral rehydration solution saved his life. (Image: Brent Stirton/Getty Images For Save the Children)

We Have the Power to Save Children’s Lives. We Must Act.

A nurse carries a container with Malaria vaccine Mosquirix at Ewim Polyclinic in Cape Coast, Ghana, on April 30, 2019. Image: Cristina Aldehuela/AFP/Getty

The “4 Ds” that Threaten Middle-Income Countries

#WHA72 committee members discuss polio eradication and plans for a polio-free world on May 23, 2019. (Image: BWS)

Polio: Waiting for the Final Blow

Local police on a May 18 patrol in Butembo, epicenter of the Ebola crisis in DRC and site of attacks on health facilities. (Image: JOHN WESSELS/AFP/Getty Images)

Bullets and Ebola: The Latest Update from DRC

A packed agenda of policy and budget discussions await delegates to this year’s World Health Assembly. Image: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty, 2012

7 Things to Watch at the 2019 World Health Assembly—#WHA72

On March 19th, 2019 the first operating room for surgical management of Tuberculosis was inaugurated at Hipolito Unanue Hospital (Lima, Peru).

How Surgery Could Help End Tuberculosis