By Joelle Dountio Ofimboudem Malaria is a life-threatening disease prevalent in the world’s poorest countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Preventing malaria hits close to home for me. I am a mother to two children, aged three and five. We are…
Interview questions and editing by Erica Lessem, Bryn Gay, Joelle Dountio Ofimboudem, Annette Gaudino, and Elizabeth Lovinger The World Health Organization set ambitious targets for eliminating the hepatitis C virus (HCV) among the 58 million people living with the disease,…
By David Branigan Ensuring access to tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatment for people most at risk of developing active TB is one of the key interventions required to end TB.1 Central to these efforts is the push to scale up short…
By Richard Jefferys Impressive results from two efficacy trials of a long-acting form of the integrase inhibitor cabotegravir (CAB LA) have boosted prospects for long-acting HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).1,2 In both cases, CAB LA proved superior to oral Truvada PrEP…
By Abraham Johnson The announcement that HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) had two successful studies on long-acting technologies (LAT) to prevent HIV — HPTN 083 and 084 — came with much excitement. Populations most impacted by HIV could possibly have…
By Annette Gaudino and Suraj Madoori Let’s Define Terraforming Terraforming — or “earth-shaping” — the transformation of an alien planet into one where humans can live, is probably most familiar to science-fiction fans and Minecraft players. Terraforming is more intensive…
By Bryn Gay, Joelle Dountio Ofimboudem, and Kenly Sikwese* Meaningful and equitable community engagement is essential to ensuring that long-acting technologies (LATs) clinical research is conducted in ways that are safe, ethical, appropriate, and responsive to community priorities and needs.1…
By Susan Swindells* and Mark Harrington This issue of TAGline explores the exciting opportunities and challenges that come with the development of long-acting formulations for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. For many years to date, patients and providers…
'The Struggle of a Lifetime' (Continued): The words of the late Honorable John Lewis ring powerfully true today. In the U.S., as we welcome a new President-elect and Vice President-elect, we must also defend democracy to ensure a complete, peaceful transition of power. We engage in the struggles generations before us have advanced, despite myriad challenges and emerging new threats such as COVID-19.
Realizing the Right to Science: When we started to put together this issue of TAGline, we had no idea that COVID-19 was about to make its appearance and wreak havoc on every country of the world.