African celeb are prone to STDs, HIV, says Haillie Sumney
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFast-rising Ghanaian actress, Haillie Sumney, who is set to break into the Nigerian movie scene, in order to attract more fans and…
China investigating treatment possibly tainted with HIV, reports say
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Reading Time: < 1 minute3D illustration of HIV. (iStock) Health officials in China are investigating a batch of blood plasma treatments that were reportedly infected with…
Tool to measure success of HIV cure strategies developed
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteScientists have developed a new assay to accurately and easily count the cells that comprise the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) reservoir, the…
February 2019 – HIV Testing is Still Critically Important
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDr. Janet Seabrook Ever notice how some diseases run their course of popularity and then you start to hear less and less…
HIV outbreak occurs among Boston drug users
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSince November 2018, Boston public health officials have diagnosed six new cases of HIV in the city among people injecting drugs. COURTESY…
Nurse injects child with HIV-infected needle, jailed for three years
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Uganda hospital will pay out R36 000, after one of its nurses injected a two-year-old child with a HIV-contaminated needle. …
HIV-Related Diarrhea Remains Significant And Unchanged
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDue to underreporting, HIV specialists often believe diarrhea is disappearing among poz folks. It’s not. A study presented at AIDS 2018 last…
Zimbabwe pastor convicted over 'HIV cure'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute© Walter Magaya/Facebook Walter Magaya is a flashy pastor with a huge following A court in Zimbabwe has fined a popular self-styled…
Setting targets for HIV/AIDS—What lessons can be learned from other disease control programmes?
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIntroduction Over the last four decades, efforts to address the global HIV pandemic have required multidisciplinary and multisectoral approaches adapted to different…
Botswana: From Despair to Hope: Journey of a Young Woman Born Infected With HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePhoto: United Nations Population Fund She was just ten years old when she found out she was infected with HIV: “I…