HIV

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlthough HIV remains incurable, various medications are available to help people living with HIV live longer, healthier lives and reduce the likelihood…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHealthcare providers are failing to protect the privacy of people living with HIV, the UK’s data watchdog has warned.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFour middle-aged women were infected with HIV while receiving ‘vampire facials’ at a spa in New Mexico, the CDC has confirmed.  Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday marks 40 years since scientists discovered that HIV causes AIDs – and now, the UK could be just a few more years away from…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLong before Covid-19 started unsettling lives and livelihoods in South Africa, the nation was already grappling with a severe health crisis of…

Reading Time: < 1 minute‘You’re not just HIV positive,’ the doctor told me. ‘You’re very positive.’   Read More

Reading Time: < 1 minuteZIMBABWE has introduced Cabotegravir long-acting (CAB-LA), an injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis drug, to add to the HIV prevention regime in the country.  Read…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was at work when I got the phone call from the sexual health clinic. I had been expecting an all-clear text,…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBritish soldiers training in Kenya have carried out initiation ceremonies in which younger recruits are forced into having unprotected sex with prostitutes,…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDespite South Africa’s impressive HIV testing figures, a subset of people start taking antiretroviral therapy far later than is ideal for their…