HIV

Reading Time: < 1 minute    The year was 1979. Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, Sony Walkman players were flying off the shelves and ‘Bright Eyes’…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe U.N.’s main AIDS program says thousands of children are dying from HIV/AIDS because, unlike adults, they do not receive treatment for…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA man has been remanded at Ogwashi-uku correctional centre for allegedly raping his girlfriend’s 17-year-old daughter in Delta State. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe four-decades long effort to create an HIV vaccine suffered a blow last week with news that Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a division of…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOfficial statistics show that deaths due to HIV and AIDS has dropped by 50 per cent since 2010. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Dr. Gambo Aliyu, has said failure to take medication…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn some states, consensual sex for people with HIV can end in a prison sentence or being registered as a sex offender….

Reading Time: < 1 minute• People injecting with drugs share needles and syringes leading to a rise in HIV infections especially among the youth. Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMachines that dispense HIV self-testing kits, clean needles and other harm reduction supplies have been installed in Atlantic Canada with plans for…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen HIV first became known to the world in the early 80s, the fear of the disease caused negative feelings towards those…