Morning Briefing

The Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog continued its coverage of the 2nd International Treatment as Prevention Workshop in Vancouver. One post describes a presentation by Zunyou Wu, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who "offered ... new information about China's response to new evidence on treatment as prevention" (Lubinski, 4/25). A second post discusses a presentation by Vladimir Novitsky of the Harvard School of Public Health, who "offered ... a snapshot of a four-year treatment as prevention study planned for Botswana (Lubinski, 4/25). "Chewe Luo, a senior adviser for UNICEF, discussed efforts to eliminate vertical HIV transmission from the perspective of treatment as prevention," according to a third post (Lubinski, 4/26). Finally, Stephen Lawn of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine "reminded the audience ... that antiretroviral therapy (ART) goes a long way to protect HIV-infected individuals from tuberculosis (TB)," a fourth post notes (Lubinski, 4/26).