Uganda: Scrap 'Inhuman' Laws On STDs, Court Urged
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Kampala — The Constitutional Court has been asked to scrap laws that dehumanise people diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases under the Venereal…
Prevalence of extragenital STDs high in men who have sex with men
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Extragenital (rectal and pharyngeal) chlamydia and gonorrhea are prevalent among men who have sex with men (MSM), according to research published in…
Did you know that face-to-face HIV testing methods are preferred?
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The world of HIV testing The majority of men who have sex with men (MSM) would prefer face-to-face HIV testing by a…
COMMENT | My second anniversary of being HIV Positive
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Reading Time: < 1 minute That’s exactly 2 years ago. The end of March 2017. Where I was seated in the waiting room at one of the…
NGO tracks HIV patients in cyclone-hit areas
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Reading Time: < 1 minute For nearly a week, 14-year-old Emma (not her real name) was scared that she was slowly dying. After she and her parents…
Health insurance coverage for ARV drug key to HIV treatment:
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Việt Nam’s health insurance fund started covering HIV patients for anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs in March this year after international donors ended their…
Aurangabad woman claims she is HIV+, staves off rape
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A murder accused out on bail tried to rape a 29-year-old widow near a nullah at Rajnagar but she thwarted the attempt…
PrEP: HIV ‘prevention’ drug many Nigerians need, don’t know about and can’t afford
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Joan, a lady in her late 20s, makes a living by having sex with people she barely knows; some she has never…
Ivy Wangechi did not have HIV — Father declares
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Slain Moi University medical student Ivy Wagechi was HIV-negative. This is according to her father Paul Githui Wainaina who strongly refuted claims…
Referee Marcos Rosales suing CSAC for allegedly exposing him to HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A well-known referee and judge in mixed martial arts and boxing is suing the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC). Marcos Rosales filed…