The Philippines is facing the fastest-growing HIV epidemic in the Asia-Pacific, with new infections increasing by 550 percent ...

In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in Eurasia to a startling 4,000-year-old case in Chile, revealing that the rare strain Mycobacterium lepromatosis haunted the Americas ...

A new study has found that leprosy was circulating in Chile some 4,000 years ago, meaning the disease arrived in the Americas much earlier than previously thought. That's based on an analysis of ...

The discovery of Mycobacterium lepromatosis suggests leprosy was present in the Americas long before Europeans, altering the historical understanding of the disease.

By sequencing 4,000-year-old genomes, scientists reveal that leprosy was entrenched in South America millennia before Europeans arrived, reshaping our understanding of its origins and spread.

Due to its high levels of social media uptake, the Philippines has been referred to as a “breeding ground for disinformation.” Philippine Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa attends a Senate ...

The process has been slowed, though not halted, by the political machinations of Duterte allies both inside and outside the Senate.

These commitments are critical to scale up treatment access for the 60% of people living with HIV in the Philippines who are not currently receiving antiretroviral therapy. But far more is needed to ...

Five more national leprosy sanitariums during and after World War II have reported administering an experimental drug called ...

U.S. lawmakers want an ammunition production and storage facility at a former American naval base in the Philippines. The move addresses concerns of the lack of a forward-based manufacturing hub ...

Is leprosy still a threat today? Though the disease has been curable for decades, over 200,000 people still suffer from it worldwide. How did leprosy go from a feared curse to a treatable illness? The ...