NACA refutes claim that fewer HIV patients get treatment, know status
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has refuted media reports that less than 50 per cent of persons living…
Easy-to-take medicine better at suppressing HIV in children
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A once-a-day antiretroviral medicine that is low-cost and easy for children to take is also more effective at suppressing HIV than standard…
Russia will take Fingerprints of all Foreigners and Test them for HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Russia announced today that it is introducing a mandatory medical examination and fingerprinting of all foreigners – measures that have already provoked strong objections …
HIV, AIDS and the development of certain cancers
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Human Immunodeficiency Virus, first identified in 1981, is the cause of one of the deadliest and most persistent epidemics ever…
HIV infections in children worrying: Unicef
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Reading Time: < 1 minute THE United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) believes more efforts are needed to combat HIV infections in children in Sub-Saharan Africa. …
FDA approves world's first injectable treatment to prevent HIV: What this means in fight against AIDS
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The FDA is hopeful that a long-acting injectable drug for HIV prevention will boost uptake of such medication in high-risk groups. Read…
HIV drugs 'stop brain tumours growing'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Drugs to treat HIV and AIDS could be effective at stopping low-grade brain tumours from growing, scientists at the University of Plymouth…
Glaxosmithkline's HIV jab is approved by US regulators who say it is more effective than tablets
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Reading Time: < 1 minute An injectable drug made by Glaxosmithkline that prevents HIV has been approved by US regulators. Read More
Headlines linking people with HIV to COVID variants are at best incomplete, at worst stigmatising
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Earlier this year, scientists discovered that the Alpha variant of SARS-CoV-2 had a unique feature. Read More
Quality of life must be a key measure for HIV treatment
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Advocates and doctors alike have called for quality of life to be a key measure in determining the success of treatment for…