HIV: Three trials to watch in 2024
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe year 2023 started with disappointing news for the field of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) research after Janssen’s Phase III vaccine trial…
27% OF PREGNANT WOMEN IN SOUTH AFRICA LIVING WITH HIV – NEW SURVEY
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFindings from South Africa’s most recent Antenatal HIV Sentinel Survey show that more than a quarter (27.5%) of pregnant women in the country…
Survivors of disfiguring condition hail addition to WHO neglected diseases list
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the first time in six years a new condition has been added to the World Health Organization’s list of neglected tropical…
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 110 Palestinians in northern Gaza, says health ministry in Hamas-run Strip
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAirstrikes in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 110 people across the last 24 hours, as Israel’s leadership faces growing international pressure for…
Albanian asylum seeker who died on Bibby Stockholm treated ‘like an animal’, says sister
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn Albanian asylum seeker who died on the Bibby Stockholm barge said migrants on board were being treated “like animals”, his sister…
A massive fuel depot explosion rocks Guinea's capital, causing casualties and damage
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn explosion and inferno at Guinea’s main fuel depot in the capital of Conakry left several people dead or injured, authorities and…
Who raises alarm as deadly ‘black boil’ disease kills 17 in Uganda
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA deadly ‘black boil’ disease has killed at least 17 and left 40 others seriously ill in Uganda. Read More
Police to crack down on fake homeless beggars who have been working in shifts to fleece Christmas shoppers out of cash
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA crackdown is planned on fake homeless aggressive beggars believed to be working a ‘shift system’ to harass female motorists and Christmas shoppers. Read More
Galway hotel fire: Police treating burning of 19th Century Georgian venue as suspected arson after inferno destroyed site set to house 70 asylum seekers
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA blaze which ripped through a country hotel that had been earmarked to accommodate 70 refugees is being treated as arson by…
Gaza residents scramble for aid packages as trucks enter Rafah amid communications blackout
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteResidents in Gaza scrambled to grab aid packages in the border city of Rafah on Sunday, 17 December, as trucks carrying supplies passed…