In Milestone for Women’s HIV Prevention, European Medicines Agency Adopts Positive Opinion on Monthly Vaginal Ring to Reduce HIV Risk

Published on July 24, 2020

The monthly ring is the first long-acting HIV prevention product and is designed to help address women’s unmet need for new methods given the persistently high rates of HIV they face, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. International Partnership for Microbicides

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A large COVID-19 outbreak in a high school 10 days after schools’ reopening, Israel, May 2020

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Webinar | Global Health Security: pandemics, AMR and climate change

July 27, 2020
This webinar will explore factors which affect global health security such as the impacts of climate change on pandemics and the interplay of pandemics with existing issues of public health concern such as antimicrobial resistance. The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & HygieneDate: July 29, 2020Time: 7 PM BST