Infectious Diseases

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices advises the CDC on how to use licensed vaccines—and the CDC usually listens. 

Beyond the direct medical costs of treating patients through both outpatient visits and hospitalizations, significant resources are needed to respond to and control measles outbreaks, and economic analyses must also account for lost productivity costs. As the number of measles cases in the US continues to grow, so too does the price tag associated with this outbreak. 

The challenges to controlling the outbreak, the importance of vaccination, and important caveats to the role of vitamin A in treating measles.

The celebrated global AIDS program faces an uncertain future with a March 25 deadline for reauthorization by the U.S. Congress. It’s time to reform not eliminate the program, writes a former PEPFAR interim chief of staff.

New insights suggest a strategy using vaccines targeting malaria in the mosquito could one day work against all malaria parasites and mosquito vectors.