Bill Gates: How HIV/AIDS prepared us to tackle COVID-19
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAround 2 million people a year used to die from HIV/AIDS. Now that figure has more than halved. So what changed? Read More
Coronavirus LIVE: 1,033 new cases and 39 deaths reported in Mumbai today
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIndia’s COVID tally cross 14 Lakhs mark with 708 deaths and highest single-day spike of 49,931 cases reported in last 24 hours….
Students shine the light on HIV and women empowerment
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteGrowing up in Daveyton township in Gauteng, Jazzman Simelane often witnessed the idleness of young people who often loitered Read More
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…