Gambia: Alarming - Estimated 24000 People Living With HIV in Gambia
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDespite the existence of HIV since March 1986, many people living with the Virus (PLHIV) have been affected and some have undergone…
Day 1: Just Diagnosed with HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBeing diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can be devastating. Read More
Luc Montagnier, co-discoverer of HIV, dies aged 89
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteLuc Montagnier, the French virologist credited as a co-discoverer of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has died aged 89. Read More
Fungal infections cause more Aids deaths than tuberculosis – here's what we can do about it
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteEven 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 minuteResearchers 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 minuteNewly 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 minuteThe 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 minuteResearchers 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 minuteA 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 minuteSome evidence suggests that people with HIV may be more likely to develop a severe case of COVID-19 and antiretroviral therapy may…