Over 80,000 HIV positive people given three-month supply of ART drugs
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMuch 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 minuteHIV 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 minuteMultiple 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 minuteIn 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 minuteAlejandra 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 minuteHIV 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 minuteAs the coronavirus pandemic has unfurled across the world, the public health crisis has brought with it considerable social and economic aftershocks, …
From the plague to MERS: A brief history of pandemics
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new coronavirus – which was first reported in the Chinese city of…
Lockdown worsens plight of HIV, tuberculosis patients
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMs Maria Amucu, a resident of Lira District, was receiving her ARVs on schedule until the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Read More
Covid-19 and health: five expert views
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe coronavirus crisis has exposed the extent to which fair access to good healthcare is tangled in a web of politics, economics…