Background Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is a disease affecting immunocompromised
patients. PCP among these patients is associated with significant morbidity and mortality …

How do we know whether a particular treatment really works? How reliable is the evidence?
And how do we ensure that research into medical treatments best meets the needs of …

Summary Background The Millennium Declaration in 2000 brought special global attention
to HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria through the formulation of Millennium Development Goal …

Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base
their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of …

This report updates and combines earlier versions of guidelines for the prevention and
treatment of opportunistic infections (OIs) in HIV-infected adults (ie, persons aged> 18 years) …

How is medical knowledge made? New methods for research and clinical care have
reshaped the practices of medical knowledge production over the last forty years …

In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world's leading medical
anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science …

2010 revision Page 1 ANTIRETROVIRAL ThERApy fOR hIV INfEcTION IN INfANTs ANd
chILdREN: TOwARds uNIVERsAL AccEss Recommendations for a public health approach 2010 …

This report updates and combines into one document earlier versions of guidelines for
preventing and treating opportunistic infections (OIs) among HIV-exposed and HIV-infected …

The massive global expansion of access to HIV treatment has transformed not only the HIV
epidemic but the entire public health landscape, demonstrating that the right to health can …