UNITAID can address HCV/HIV co-infection

UNITAID can address HCV/HIV co-infection.

In the fi rst days of March, the governing body of UNITAID, the organisation fi nanced mainly through a levy on air tickets, will decide on a new 4-year strategy. A 5-year evaluation praised UNITAID’s success ful “market impact” model for improving access to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria products through lower ing prices, improving supply, or introducing new products. We believe UNITAID’s new ...

Can Radar Interferometry Address Commercial Applications?

This paper addresses a question often asked by industry: can radar interferometry (or InSAR or IFSAR) deliver services on a commercial and/or operational basis? To answer this question two systems based on InSAR for digital elevation model (DEM) generation are considered. One commercial system is the GeoSAR Xand P-band radar aerial mapping system from EarthData. The X-band can deliver digital s...

Recommendations to the UNITAID Patent Pool Initiative: A “Square” Model

Tuberculosis/hiv Co-infection

Tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/ AIDS) constitute the main burden of infectious disease in resource-limited countries. Estimates by the World Health Orgnisation (WHO) indicate that there are more than nine million new active cases of TB and close to two million deaths per year and 2.6 million new cases of HIV infection and 1.8 million ...

Presidental address--Obesity discrimination: what can we do?

Obesity is a disease associated with premature mortality and contributes to the severity of multiple obesityrelated conditions, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obstructive sleep apnea, musculoskeletal and quality of life impairment, cancer, and others [1,2]. A variety of bariatric surgical procedures, developed and performed throughout the past 40 years, have consistent...