UK's R number falls to below one for the first time since July
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe figure is now between 0.7 and 0.9, according to the latest estimate. Read More
Pfizer vaccine cuts Covid-19 transmission risk four-fold, even before second dose: study
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePeople vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine are four times less likely to spread the Coronavirus, even before they have received their second…
Vaccines? The Chinese got there first... Charles Kenny details a history of mankind's battles with infectious disease
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn 1962, the Nobel Prize-winning virologist Sir Frank Burnet wrote: ‘The most likely forecast about the future of infectious disease is that…
BSc degree, HIV test required to join Ogun Amotekun corps
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs the Ogun State Government begins recruitment of officers for its Amotekun corps, interested applicants are to meet some requirements to be…
In memory: Elias Phiri, community HIV and TB advocate
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Reading Time: < 1 minute On 27 January 2021, Elias Phiri, a long-standing and much loved community health activist died from COVID-19 after spending almost four…
UNAIDS: Global analysis estimated condoms averted around 50 million new HIV infections
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteGlobal modelling analysis estimated that condoms have averted around 50 million new HIV infections since the onset of the HIV epidemic. Read…
Routine blood tests could be key to stopping the silent killer of liver disease
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNew research has shown that results of blood tests routinely performed by GPs everywhere contain a hidden fingerprint that can identify people…
New study gives hope of eliminating mother-to-baby transmission of HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnti-retroviral drugs are a vital tool in the prevention and treatment of HIV. Read More
COVID-19: Mozambique's fight against ever-rising COVID infections - and a 'five-year wait' for vaccines
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHard-pressed hospital staff in Mozambique are not only fighting a sevenfold increase in COVID cases, but they have no functioning track-and-trace system,…
Mathematician calculates that all the world's coronavirus particles fit inside a soda can
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe can only glimpse viruses with advanced microscopes. Read More