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…
Mixed results in UN report on HIV fight
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Around 50% of the 5,400 new HIV infections recorded in the country last year were among young people aged 15-24 years old,…
Tackle entrenched inequalities to end epidemics
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Like the HIV epidemic before it, Covid-19 is exploiting the extreme inequalities between countries and within them among disadvantaged and vulnerable communities….
'Deeply concerned' about impact of Covid-19 on global response to HIV: WHO
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Reading Time: < 1 minute World Health Organisation (WHO) is deeply concerned about the impact of Covid-19 on the global response to HIV, Read More
Coronavirus, decline in donor funds derail plans to end AIDS
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A new report has revealed that the coronavirus pandemic and decline in donor funding for Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome…
Covid-19 blowing Africa's HIV fight off track — experts
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Reading Time: < 1 minute If the disruptions to HIV programmes, which have largely been influenced by the global response to Covid-19 and protracted lockdowns, Read More
UNAIDS report: COVID-19 pandemic derails 2020 HIV targets
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The report – Seizing the Moment – warns that the remarkable achievements made in the fight to end AIDS have not been…