New HIV infections among Hamilton intravenous drug users prompts safe-injection plea
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA tray of supplies to be used at the Insite safe injection clinic in this CP file photo. The Hamilton Social Medicine…
Less-fortunate HIV patients in Saint Lucia get Lions Club assistance (+video)
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Reading Time: < 1 minute(PRESS RELEASE) — The Lions Club of Castries recently made a donation of food hampers to the Infectious Diseases Unit of the…
Health bosses knew about the NHS tainted blood scandal 30 years ago as documents reveal admission that 500 haemophiliacs had contracted HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHealth bosses secretly admitted they were at fault over the contaminated blood scandal nearly 30 years ago, official documents reveal (stock image)…
Problem drinking linked to HIV, other sexually transmitted infections in Ugandan youth, study finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minute –Youth living in the slums of Uganda who are infected with both HIV and sexually transmitted infections are more likely…
Athens Checkpoint free HIV, Hepaptitis test centre target of arson attack
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAthens’ Prevention & Testing Center “Checkpoint”, which provides free and confidential rapid testing for HIV and Hepatitis B and C, fell victim…
Sadiq Khan: Cash row is denying Londoners access to HIV ‘wonder drug’
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMayor Sadiq Khan today said he was “shocked” that a row over funding was denying more Londoners access to an HIV “wonder drug”. Mr Khan…
A Cure for HIV? Feasible But Not Yet Realized
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week a team of scientists and physicians from the U.K. published news of a second HIV positive man, in London, who is in long-term (18-month)…
Appeals court says Ohio may withhold Planned Parenthood funding
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected Planned Parenthood’s constitutional challenge to an Ohio law depriving the organization of state…
Injectable, Long-Acting PrEP May Be Made Available In Several Years
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteLeading immunologists in the field of HIV prevention have begun research on alternatives to the pill version of PrEP, including a long-lasting…
HIV-related services could be outsourced to private sector to 'guarantee better quality of care'
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteContinuous follow ups, education, and training to Health care professional and patients with a main focus on adherence could be outsourced to…