Did HIV Status Affect Transplant Patients' Long-Term Outcomes?
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePatient survival in liver transplant recipients and graft survival in kidney transplant recipients was comparable Read More
Persistent and worsening obesity seen in young people on lifelong antiretroviral treatment
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA recent US study, following people who acquired HIV in childhood over time, has found evidence of persistent and worsening central obesity…
Home Office hit with high court claim over refusal to treat HIV patient in detention centre
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Home Office will undergo a high court battle over a HIV patient who was denied life-saving treatment while being held in an…
NACA refutes claim that fewer HIV patients get treatment, know status
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe 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 minuteA 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 minuteRussia 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 minuteTHE 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 minuteThe 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 minuteDrugs to treat HIV and AIDS could be effective at stopping low-grade brain tumours from growing, scientists at the University of Plymouth…