How South Africa can improve community-based HIV services
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Reading Time: < 1 minute South Africa introduced a community-based primary health care programme in 2012. The aim of the programme, which includes a large HIV component, is…
PEP: The HIV ‘prevention drug’ many Nigerians don’t know about
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Karishi General hospital As the reporter walks towards the ‘heart to heart’ centre at Wuse District Hospital, she thinks: ”if truly a…
Here are some HIV headlines you may have missed
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Last Monday, researchers shared the case of a London man who is being hailed as “functionally cured” of HIV. By Tuesday, that announcement was…
Study: Rate of Opioid-Related Deaths Increasing in Patients With HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Concomitant HIV infection and opioid use is common throughout the United States.1-4Patients with HIV are more likely to have chronic pain, be…
From Cocaine and HIV to Rape and Abuse, Former Homosexuals Share Radical Encounters With God
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Edward Byrd, front left, and Joshua Buchanan, front right, lead worship. (edwardbyrdmusic/Instagram)Edward Byrd, front left, and Joshua Buchanan, front right, lead worship….
Italian man who infected women with HIV sentenced to 16 years
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Image caption Valentino Talluto was arrested in November 2015 An Italian man has been jailed for 24 years after intentionally infecting 30…
HIV+ve man gets Coast Guard job back after 14 yrs
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Last week, a bench of Justices Bhushan Gavai and N J Jamadar questioned why even after the fitness test report, his reinstatement…
Ending HIV In Mississippi Means Cutting Through Racism, Poverty And Homophobia
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Reading Time: < 1 minute More testing for HIV infection is one of the steps needed to halt the spread of the virus. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Ending…
Doctor responsible for HIV data leak faces further disciplinary action
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Photo: YouTube screengrab Ler Teck Siang, the doctor found guilty last September of deceiving the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and providing false…
Novelist Rebecca Makkai on The Great Believers
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Rebecca Makkai was only a child when the AIDS crisis hit her hometown, Chicago, in the 1980s. It formed the backdrop to…