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Bookmark or Share- Answers to Frequently Asked Questions on TB preventive treatment (TPT)4 laboratory. There are currently two assays in widespread use and that have been endorsed by WHO: QuantiFERON®–TB Gold In-Tube test (QFT–GIT) and T-SPOTTB test (T–Spot).
- A seventh case of HIV cure reported at AIDS 2024The new case (1) presented at AIDS 2024 is a 60-year-old German man living with HIV who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia and underwent a blood stem cell transplant in 2015 from a donor with the CCR5-delta 32 mutation. However, the stem cell donor had a single instead of a double CCR5-delta 32 mutation, which is an important difference ...
- First case of HIV cure in a woman after stem cell transplantation ...The International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trial Network (IMPAACT) P1107 reported the first case of HIV cure in a woman living with HIV submitted to a dual stem cell transplant (i.e., an umbilical cord blood transplant combined with a half-matched bone marrow) for treatment of an acute myelogenous leukemia.
- COVID-19 vaccines - World Health Organization (WHO)WHO has published the target product profiles for COVID-19 vaccines, which describes the preferred and minimally acceptable profiles for human vaccines for long term protection of persons at high ongoing risk of COVID-19, and for reactive use in outbreak settings with rapid onset of immunity.
- WHO Model List of Essential Medicines - 23rd list, 2023The core list presents a list of minimum medicine needs for a basic health-care system, listing the most efficacious, safe and cost–effective medicines for priority conditions. Priority conditions are selected on the basis of current and estimated future public health relevance, and potential for safe and cost-effective treatment.
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