Nigerian Reseacher Flays Promotion of Bone Marrow Transplant for HIV/Aids Cure

Vanguard

A Nigerian researcher, Prof. Maduike Ezeibe, has frowned at the analytical treatment interruption, otherwise known as bone marrow transplant, being promoted as cure for HIV/AIDS. Read more »

Tanzania Starts Using Effective HIV Drug

Citizen

Tanzania has started using Dolutegravir 'DGT', the new and most effective drug in suppressing HIV/Aids in the human body. Read more »

U.S. Reveals Why It Cut Funding for HIV

Nation

The United States has for the first time explained why it has cut health funding to the Kenyan government, saying that the move was not malicious but driven by programmes and data. Read more »

MP Seeks Govt Answers Over Deformity-Causing Anti-Retroviral Therapy

New Zimbabwe

Magwegwe legislator Anele Ndebele Tuesday asked Health Minister Obadiah Moyo to bring to parliament, a ministerial statement explaining why some people on Anti-Retroviral Therapy… Read more »

Key Populations Left Out in HIV/Aids Fight

East African

In the past eight years, East Africa has reduced Aids-related mortality and annual new HIV infections by 44 and 28 per cent respectively, according to the United Nations Programme… Read more »

Legislator Challenges Health Minister to Explain ARV After Effects

263Chat

Mangwe legislator Anele Ndebele has taken Minister of Health and Child Care Obadiah Moyo to task over reported side effects of Anti Retroviral (ARVs) drugs which has seen people… Read more »

Do Not Discriminate Against Men - HIV/Aids Activist

New Era

Israel Hatutale, who has been living with the HIV virus for the past 21 years, says the fight against the deadly epidemic can only be a success with the involvement of men. Read more »

How Close Are We to HIV Cure and Vaccine? [analysis]

New Times

Among the avenues that will put healthcare ahead of HIV/Aids is the development of vaccines, cures and multiple prevention mechanisms. Read more »

Young Women Most at Risk of HIV Infection

East African

About 25 million people are living with HIV in Africa, and globally, 6,000 adolescent girls and young women are infected every week, a UNAids report states. Read more »

EU and IMF Assistance to Improve Financial Management

ANGOP

Angola's Finance minister, Vera Daves, on Tuesday said she believes that the technical assistance provided by the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will… Read more »

UNFPA to strengthen leadership role in global HIV prevention; increase access to people with disabilities to AIDS prevention and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa [press release]

UNFPA in WCA

Dakar, 9 December 2019 – The 2019 edition of the International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa, (ICASA 2019), ended in Kigali, Rwanda with a… Read more »

60,000 Lagos Residents Living With HIV/Aids At Large - UNAIDS

Vanguard

The Country Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), Dr. Erasmus Morah, has revealed that out of the 120,000 Lagos residents living with Human… Read more »

The Social Management of HIV - African Migrants in South Africa [analysis]

The Conversation Africa

HIV is the most common chronic illness in South Africa. One in every five is infected and one in every 13 takes antiretroviral drugs daily. Managing HIV medically has become more… Read more »

Health Experts Trumpet Use of New Arv Drug

Daily News

TREATMENT to HIV patients has recorded a tremendous milestone, with the new Anti-Retroviral (ARV) drug proving to be able to suppress viral load within six months, with fewer or no… Read more »

Two Officials Suspended Over Release of Fake Condoms

Monitor

Two officials of Marie Stopes International Uganda have been suspended over the release of the substandard Life Guard condoms to the market. Read more »