Fungal infections cause more Aids deaths than tuberculosis – here's what we can do about it
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Even though annual deaths from Aids are coming down – from a peak of 1.9 million in 2004 to 690,000 in 2020 –…
Discovery of ‘highly virulent’ HIV variant ‘not a public health crisis’
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Researchers discovered what they described as a “highly virulent” variant of HIV-1 that has been circulating in the Netherlands for the past…
Fast-Spreading HIV Variant Doubles Rate Of Immune System Decline – UNAIDS
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Newly published research from the Netherlands has revealed the existence of a more transmissible and damaging variant of HIV Read More
UK: More straight people are catching HIV than gay men for first time in a decade
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The number of new HIV diagnoses among straight people is higher than in gay and bisexual men for the first time in…
A highly virulent, but treatable, HIV strain has been quietly circulating since the ’90s
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Researchers from the University of Oxford have discovered a previously unknown, highly virulent variant of HIV circulating in the Netherlands since the…
New HIV super-strain is found in the Netherlands: Highly infectious variant makes people ill twice as quickly and has been spotted in at least 109 people
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A new super-mutant HIV strain that makes infected individuals ill twice as fast as current versions of the virus has been detected…
Antiretrovirals May Help Protect Patients with HIV Against Severe COVID-19
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Some evidence suggests that people with HIV may be more likely to develop a severe case of COVID-19 and antiretroviral therapy may…
The new study giving hope HIV can be controlled without medication
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A gene study has found that approximately 1 in 200 people living with HIV would able to ‘self-vaccinate’ against the virus and…
Moderna begins trial of HIV vaccine that uses mRNA technology
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Moderna is beginning a trial of an mRNA vaccine for HIV, the company announced Thursday. Read More
Male clients of sex workers more likely to be living with HIV compared to other men
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Twenty years’ worth of surveys suggest that nearly one in ten sexually active men in 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been…