Brazilian man may be the first person to be ‘cured’ of HIV with drugs alone
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A Brazilian man may be the first person to be “cured” of HIV after receiving an intensive experimental drug therapy. Read More
UN: COVID-19 Setting Back AIDS Fight Amid 'Staggering' Surge In East European, Central Asian Infections
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The United Nations says the coronavirus pandemic is disrupting treament for many and jeopardizing years of progress in the battle against HIV/AIDS…
HPTN 083 study demonstrates superiority of cabotegravir for the prevention of HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Researchers from the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) announced today that the HPTN 083 clinical trial showed that Read more
Africa: MSF Responds to UNAIDS 2020 Global Report Warning the World Will Miss Its Targets
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Reading Time: < 1 minute As the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) released its 2020 Global AIDS Update today, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans…
First person ever ‘cured’ of HIV using medication alone, marking the most exciting breakthrough in the fight against the virus in years
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In a new study, presented Tuesday (July 7) at the International AIDS conference 2020, a patient on a relatively simple antiretroviral drug regimen…
HIV patient 'first in remission' without transplant
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A HIV-positive man in remission may be the first patient effectively cured of the illness without needing a bone marrow transplant, …
How is the HIV Epidemic Being Controlled?
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Reading Time: < 1 minute HIV is a retrovirus that belongs to the lentivirus subgroup, which is known to cause disease slowly. Read more
Pandemic tops 11.5 million cases, imperils HIV care
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Reading Time: < 1 minute As the pace of COVID-19 activity accelerates in a number of large countries, the global total surged past 11 million cases over…
Nigeria, 72 Others Risk Stock-out Of HIV Drugs
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Nigeria and 72 countries are at risk of stock-outs of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its…
World to miss 2020 targets against AIDS due to unequal progress, COVID-19: UNAIDS report
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The global HIV targets for 2020 will not be reached due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the highly unequal…