Making Progress Against HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis: PATH Combines Wide-Ranging Expertise With Effective Strategies to Meet Urgent Global Challenges

This brochure provides an overview of our work to reduce the burden of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis around the world. It outlines our overall approach, key strategies, and core competencies.

Addressing Gender to Improve Health

This fact sheet highlights how we integrate gender across its programmatic activities.

Communications Handbook for Clinical Trials

This handbook is a practical guide developed for site-level microbicide researchers, communicators, advocates, and others working on HIV prevention trials in developing countries. It includes context-specific case studies and practical insights from actual clinical trial communications initiatives.

Standards of Prevention in HIV Prevention Trials

This report covers a 2009 consultation in Kampala, Uganda, that was convened by the Global Campaign for Microbicides, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It includes recommendations related to key ethical and practical questions on the design and implementation of clinical trials.

Improving Child Health and HIV-Free Survival: A Review of Current Research on Risks and Benefits of Infant Feeding Options for HIV-Positive Moms

This handout of a poster presented at the July 2010 International AIDS Conference presents evidence on the effect of breastfeeding avoidance and early cessation on child mortality and HIV-free survival in developing countries.

Special Report: 7th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases

This special report offers an overview of the proceedings at the 7th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases held March 14 to 18, 2010. The report captures topics ranging from microbiology and epidemiology of the pneumococcus bacterium to existing and novel pneumococcal vaccines and treatments, as well as updates on global advocacy efforts and serotype dynamics of pneumococcal disease.

Technology Updates

Four new fact sheets in our Technology Updates series describe our work on cryotherapy for cervical cancer prevention, low-cost devices to provide lung support for newborns, developing an affordable sanitary pad made out of common agricultural waste materials, and an intradermal adapter that makes it easier to administer intradermal injections.

The Incinerator Guidebook: A Practical Guide for Selecting, Purchasing, Installing, Operating, and Maintaining Small-Scale Incinerators in Low-Resource Settings

This guidebook captures our lessons learned over the course of the Making Medical Injections Safer project, in both US Centers for Disease Control and USAID countries, on selecting, procuring, and installing a small-scale incinerator for health care waste management.

An Advocacy Strategy for Adoption and Dissemination of the WHO Policy on TB Infection Control in Health Care Facilities, Congregate Settings, and Households

In 2010, the World Health Organization issued a new policy to guide activities for controlling tuberculosis (TB) infection. This report provides guidance on advocacy for political and financial support for TB infection control and widespread adoption of the policy. The report also addresses advocacy for linkages with civil society organizations in the field to ensure demand for and implementation of the policy.

Our 2009 annual report

This online version of our annual report summarizes our progress and milestones in moving global health solutions—technologies, tools, and interventions—along the pathway from innovation to impact.