City Centre drug unit distributes 10,000 injection kits in 49 days
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Figures show more than 10,000 needles and sheets of foil were supplied by volunteers from a mobile unit over 49 nights in April, Read…
Telangana: ART shields HIV patients from Covid-19 attack
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The novel coronavirus has not spared any individual. Read More
'A lot of people running around with STIs' - doctor warns unsafe pandemic sex and clinic closures caused rise in diseases
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Covid-19 pandemic prompted the public health authorities to concentrate their work on the fight against the disease Read More
Coronavirus and HIV in the United States: Lessons learned, lessons ignored
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Reading Time: < 1 minute It has been just six months since the new coronavirus officially known as SARS-CoV-2 was recognised and already Read More
Nomandla Yako, the HIV/Aids activist who ‘planted hope’
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In the despairing, dark days when HIV was ravaging South Africa and access to treatment was priced out of reach for thousands,…
Coronavirus lockdown could end Northern Ireland HIV transmission: charity
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Lockdown could help end HIV transmission in Northern Ireland, it has been claimed. Read More
Repurposed HIV Drug Ineffective in Treating COVID-19, Say Oxford Researchers
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Reading Time: < 1 minute An antiviral drug combination touted as a potential COVID-19 treatment did not improve patients’ chances of survival, researchers at the University of…
What is pooled testing? How lessons from the HIV epidemic could help fight the coronavirus
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A testing strategy that helped fight HIV could offer the United States a window into the severity of the coronavirus outbreak. Read…
Like HIV, corona hits immune cells: Studies
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Researchers have discovered that in many Covid patients, the immune system is threatened by a depletion of certain essential cells, suggesting eerie…
Psychiatrists see HIV-like situation, suggest pre-test, post-test counselling
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Four Covid-19 patients have committed suicide in Karnataka and psychiatrists say those battling an infection and perhaps fear – of stigma, isolation…