diagnostics

A new United Nations report published by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) evaluates HIV/AIDS treatment in 144 low- to middle-income countries.  It appears that progress has been made in improving access to HIV/AIDS medication and services in over thirty developing nations.  

Learn more at www.rollbackmalaria.org/ worldmalariaday, and celebrate! By counting just a few of the recent successes in the past year, as well as thinking on how far we've yet to go:

Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) recently re-evaluated by the WHO (37 tests now available!):
www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2010/malaria_20100423/en/index.html