Getting to the core of HIV replication
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteViruses lurk in the gray area between the living and the nonliving, according to scientists. Read More
$29 Billion A Year By 2025 Needed To Get Back On Track To Tackle AIDS, Say UNAIDS
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new report from the UN agency dedicated to ending HIV and AIDS ( UNAIDS) has shown that investing $29 billion a year to…
Diabetes drug may be a new weapon against HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA team led by scientists at the UNC School of Medicine discovered an important vulnerability of the AIDS-causing retrovirus HIV, Read More
FG laments multi-drug resistant, HIV-associated TB in Nigeria
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Federal Government has expressed concern that Nigeria is on the list of 14 countries with triple burden of tuberculosis (TB), human…
Kenya: Doctors in Homa Bay Raise Alarm Over Shortage of ARVs
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMore than 114,000 people living with HIV in Homa Bay County are facing an uncertain future following delays in delivery of antiretroviral…
Sex workers contributed 6.9% to new HIV infections
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere are around 150,000 sex workers in South Africa. The National Strategic Plan on HIV identifies sex workers as a “key population” at high risk…
Women living with HIV continue the fight against forced sterilisation
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWomen living with HIV demand justice — and autonomy over their bodies. Read More
Vaccine regimen fails to prevent HIV-1 infection in South Africa
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA canarypox-protein HIV vaccine regimen (ALVAC-HIV) plus bivalent subtype C gp120-MF59 adjuvant does not prevent HIV-1 infection among adults in South Africa, …
‘Nigeria has highest burden of tuberculosis, HIV in Africa’
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNigeria has been described as a country with the highest burden for tuberculosis (TB), Human Immuno Defiency Virus (HIV) in Africa and third among the high…
Researchers identify chemicals that keep HIV virus in dormant state
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen the human immunodeficiency virus infects cells, it can either exploit the cells to start making more copies of itself or remain…