Jacqui Wise

TL;DR: A "polypill" containing a fixed-dose of aspirin, a statin and one or two blood-pressure-lowering drugs, has enormous potential in developing countries, where the rate of cardiovascular disease is rising rapidly, according to an expert working party.

TL;DR: Public health experts say that countries in southern Africa with very high HIV prevalence and low circumcision rates and where the spread of HIV is predominantly via heterosexual sex may want to consider doing acceptability, feasibility and costing studies for making male circumcision widely available.

TL;DR: Developing countries are failing to make full use of flexibilities built into the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) to overcome patent barriers and, in turn, al low them to acquire the medicines they need for high priority diseases, in particular, HIV/AIDS.

TL;DR: Countries in southern Africa have moved quickly to draw up a regional strategy for managing and preventing extensively drug-resistant TB following an outbreak in South Africa that demonstrated the high mortality of XDR-TB when associated with HIV infection.

TL;DR: In an unprecedented meeting last month, humanitarian and health agencies working in malaria control linked up with the private sector to discuss ways of speeding up production and distribution of improved insecticidal mosquito nets.