People with HIV, TB have twice the risk of death from coronavirus, report finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minute People with HIV or tuberculosis have at least twice the risk of dying from COVID-19 – but the risks are even deadlier…
‘Flying blind’: Doctors race to understand what Covid-19 means for people with HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Larry Pike has already survived one pandemic. The 76-year-old Seattle retiree has been living with HIV for 22 years. Read More
HIV and TB 'less deadly' than diabetes, old age in Covid-19 cases
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Having diabetes or being older than 50 are far deadlier than HIV and TB in a person who contracts Covid-19. Read More
Museveni playing his Parliament with world class footballer’s finesse
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Reading Time: < 1 minute It is the successor to HIV/Aids. No, not as a human disease or its impact on the affected individuals and their families. …
Isolated, depressed and alone: Why for LGBT+ Ugandans, coronavirus lockdown has been 'simply torture'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Keem Love Black has spent more than two months indoors in her home in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda’s capital. Read More
Coronavirus could permanently alter 'social life' the way HIV/AIDS changed ‘sexual life’: Niall Ferguson
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In a newly released interview, historian and author Niall Ferguson said that if the novel coronavirus remains a permanent part of American…
Strategic Considerations for Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 on Key Population-Focused HIV Programs
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone, including key populations at higher risk of HIV. Read More
The Handling of Coronavirus Has Left Some Who Witnessed the AIDS Crisis With a Sense of Deja Vu. Here’s Why.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The death toll climbed to unprecedented heights as a mystery illness wreaked havoc on the unsuspecting, all while officials in countries Read…
Youth and Covid-19 Diaries: Young, HIV positive and on lock down alone
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Reading Time: < 1 minute We are currently in the last two weeks of a 49-day continuous lockdown. No new COVID-19 cases were recorded in the past…
HIV-positive patients who take ARVs 'not at greater risk of contracting Covid-19'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute South Africans who are HIV-positive and take antiretrovirals are not at greater risk of contracting Covid-19, a local expert said on Thursday….