National AIDS Trust’s artwork competition
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAspiring artists and designers are invited to enter HIV charity National AIDS Trust’s inaugural Red Ribbon Inspired artwork competition Read More
‘Fear will not fill our bellies’: Why Indian waste collectors are risking their lives on coronavirus debris
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMansoor Khan and his wife Latifa Bibi have been collecting scraps of plastic and other items at an enormous landfill site on…
An HIV Survivor Writes: “Let’s Work Together To Stop The Stigma And Discrimination”
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteLots of people worry about sharing their HIV-positive status in case other people will judge them or won’t accept them. Read More
More than 300,000 people tested positive for HIV in 2019
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe estimated number of people living with HIV in the country at the end of 2019 is 342,307. Read More
Society And Laws Don’t Help People With HIV, But Here’s What Will
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteLearning that you are HIV-positive can be one of the most difficult experiences you could go through in life. Read More
A hard journey to a future free of hepatitis in Africa
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe World Health Organisation has announced additional efforts to eliminate hepatitis by 2030. Read More
In Africa, stigma surrounding coronavirus hinders response
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter 23 days in quarantine in Uganda — far longer than required — Jimmy Spire Ssentongo walked free in part because of…
Early oxygen use contributed to more recoveries says research unit
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe early administration of oxygen contributed to lower fatalities and recoveries in COVID-19 patients, according to the Clinical HIV Research Unit at…
Don't call obese people chunky: Doctors are urged avoid using non-medical terms when talking to overweight patients in case they increase stigma
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDoctors have been urged to avoid using ‘judgemental’, ‘threatening’ or non-medical terms such as ‘chunky’ when treating obese patients. Read More
Groups protest exclusion of HIV-infected people from coronavirus vaccine trials
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs large trials get underway to test the vaccines needed to stop the global coronavirus pandemic, one group has realized they are…