South Africa: HIV and Aids Activist Nomandla Yako Laid to Rest
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Described as ‘calm and humble’, Yako was an activist who defied an entire government in a bid to bring affordable care to…
HIV Alone Not a Risk Factor for Cavities in Children
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Recent studies indicate HIV infection heightens the risk of dental cavities. Read More
Gambia: TRRC Witness Alleges People Died From Jammeh's HIV Treatment Programme
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Fatou Jatta, a witness before the TRRC has alleged that nine people died from former President Yahya Jammeh’s HIV Treatment Programme. Read…
Pioneering HIV/AIDS researcher Flossie Wong-Staal remembered as 'strong woman in a man's world
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal, a molecular virologist whose work was instrumental in understanding and treating HIV/AIDS, has died. She was 73. Read More
Police: Man with HIV who Spits on FL Firefighter Charged
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A Daytona Beach man positive with HIV was accused of passing on the virus by spitting on a South Daytona firefighter-paramedic, Read More
Africa: Global HIV Targets Set for 2020 Will Not Be Reached - UNAIDS Report
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Report by the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has revealed that the global HIV target set for 2020 will not be…
U.K. marketing police slam Gilead for claiming Biktarvy tolerability beats GSK rival
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Gilead Sciences and GlaxoSmithKline subsidiary ViiV Healthcare are entangled in a heated race for HIV market share, Read More
PWDs living with HIV/AIDs request for special support
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Women with disabilities, living with HIV/AIDs under their umbrella organisation Positive Women with Disabilities Uganda Read More
COVID-19 lockdown led to less sex, lower use of HIV prevention meds
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Reading Time: < 1 minute About one-third of people prescribed drugs to prevent HIV stopped taking the medications when they were forced to stay home Read More
What Can Be Done to Reach People With Comorbid HIV, Severe Mental Illness?
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) have a 10-fold greater likelihood of HIV infection, and they are notoriously difficult to engage and…