ComePrEPd: Greg wants your help to Close The Gap on HIV with PrEP
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePrEP is a prevention strategy where HIV negative people take one oral pill a day to prevent HIV infection. Read More
UNAIDS pays tribute to AIDS champion Benjamin Mkapa
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe agency described Mpaka as a bold and compassionate leader who worked to promote peace in eastern Africa and Read More
Exclusive: New GLAAD survey on HIV stigma and lack of knowledge about transmission shows 'how much work is left to do'
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnly half of Americans feel knowledgeable about HIV, and nearly 90 percent believe that stigma still exists around it, Read More
World Hepatitis Day: fast-tracking elimination of hepatitis B among mothers and children
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe proportion of children under five years of age chronically infected with hepatitis B (HBV) dropped to just under 1% in 2019…
Covid-19 only a the dress rehearsal for pandemics
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome scientists feel that the current Covid-19 pandemic, which has already infected more than 16-million and killed more than 600,000 worldwide, Read…
Do masks give us a false sense of security? Probably not, says science
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Writing in BMJ Analysis, the researchers say that the concept of ‘risk compensation’ is itself the greater threat to public health…
Mother begs for HIV drugs for 2-year-old son as Ghana runs out of ARVs
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe lives of thousands of persons living with HIV/AIDs hang in a balance as antiretroviral drugs in Ghana are fast depleting. Read…
A new interactive project map sources the best solutions to COVID-19 in the slums
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Reading Time: < 1 minute UN-Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) along with partner countries and, in cooperation with the Read More
‘I can't give in’: The Togolese nun caring for Aids patients amid Covid-19
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDapaong is a buzzing, multi-religious city, 13 miles south of Togo’s border with Burkina Faso and more than 300 miles Read More
Coronavirus in South Africa: Why the low fatality rate may be misleading
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Reading Time: < 1 minute As coronavirus infections surge, at ferocious speed, across South Africa, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks driving through this Read…