HIV carriers a fifth as likely to die from coronavirus, Madrid study suggests
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The new coronavirus is much less likely to kill people who also have HIV, according to a study by Spanish scientists. Read…
Coronavirus echoes HIV crisis in Malawi
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Lindizga Msiska was among thousands of people packed tightly into Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre, Malawi, on May 25, Read More
Disaster Looms as Virus Robs Resources From Africa’s Older Ills
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo haven’t been vaccinated against measles this year. Read More
Over 80,000 HIV positive people given three-month supply of ART drugs
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Much ahead of the lockdown, to ensure that HIV positive people do not miss out on required medicines, officials of Maharashtra State…
Coronavirus: Calls for clarity over HIV shielding advice
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Reading Time: < 1 minute HIV was not on the government’s list of conditions advising people to stay at home for 12 weeks. Read More
Hoax circulates online that Taiwanese doctors have discovered COVID-19 is a ‘combination of SARS and AIDS’
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Multiple Facebook posts shared hundreds of times claim doctors from the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) in Taipei have found that COVID-19…
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…
Trans woman left to die with coronavirus symptoms by paramedics who ‘refused to treat her’ because she had HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Alejandra Monocuco, a 39-year-old trans woman living in Colombia’s capital city, Bogotá, died last Friday (May 29), 40 minutes after emergency medical…
Botswana: SA, Botswana Based HIV+ Zimbos' Lives in Danger As Lockdown Cuts Drug Supplies
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Reading Time: < 1 minute HIV positive Zimbabweans living in countries such as South Africa and Botswana face health-related challenges due to failure to access their anti-retroviral…
HIV: Impact on mental health & quality of life in time of COVID-19
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Reading Time: < 1 minute As the coronavirus pandemic has unfurled across the world, the public health crisis has brought with it considerable social and economic aftershocks, …