Over 1.2 million Zambians have HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Over 1.2 million Zambians are currently living with HIV – the Virus that causes AIDS with 970 000 on Anti-retroviral therapy. Ministry…
HIV patients diagnosed with tuberculosis more likely to die within 10 years, study finds
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Among people with HIV in Latin America, those diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) at an initial clinic visit were about twice as likely…
Hurricane Maria had a significant impact on HIV care outcomes
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico had a significant impact on HIV outcomes among people living with HIV and a history…
Q&A: How churches are leading the way in helping migrants with HIV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Reverend Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, took time out of a recent gathering to explain how…
First community-based Anti Retroviral Therapy centre opens in Vakola
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The centre was inaugurated by actor Richa Chadda. Vivek Anand, CEO of the trust, said that unlike two decades ago, samples collected…
On International Women’s Day, UNAIDS calls for greater action to protect young women and adolescent girls
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Reading Time: < 1 minute On International Women’s Day, UNAIDS is urging countries to step up and protect young women and adolescent girls from HIV. AIDS-related illnesses…
Monthly HIV injection could free patients from gruelling drug regimen
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Long-acting medicines have proved as effective as daily pills in preventing HIV from replicating, according to results from twin trials that enrolled…
Tanzania Hit By the Shortages of Condom
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Risks of increase of sexually transmitted infections, HIV as well as unplanned pregnancies might increase in Tanzania, following reports of shortages of…
‘HIV Self-Testing Program’ receives wide usage: Taiwan CDC
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The “HIV Self-Testing Program” initiated by Taiwan CDC has served 7,771 people since December 2018, the center said in a news release…
UN AIDS agency greatly encouraged by ‘functional cure'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The UN agency leading the global effort to end AIDS, said on Tuesday that a new case of a patient who has been “functionally…