New Delivery, New Hope - Dissolving HIV Prevention Drug Works For Newborn Babies
allAfrica
In the fight against HIV, one of the most vulnerable populations is often overlooked - newborn babies Read more »
New Dosing Guidance for Dolutegravir Allows Neonates Born to Mothers with HIV to Access this ARV Drug for the First Time - CROI Research
Stellenbosch University
The PETITE-DTG study evaluated dolutegravir (DTG) — a drug that revolutionized HIV treatment in adults and children — in infants less than 28 days… Read more »
No Hope for Zimbabwe, Africa As U.S. Shuts Down 83% of USAID Programmes
New Zimbabwe
Health, education and a range of other sectors in Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa that were benefiting from USAID might just be in for a long, grueling run following announcements… Read more »
U.S. Funding Cuts Imperil Search for HIV Vaccine [blog]
spotlight
A groundbreaking project to study potential HIV vaccines in several African countries has been derailed by an abrupt cut in funding from the United States government. As a result,… Read more »
Ending Aids, Malaria and TB Is an Urgent Imperative
Global Fund
Ending AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (TB) is within reach. But the gains we have made against these diseases over the last two decades, the lives saved, the health and community… Read more »
A Cash Crisis Forces UN to Re-Figure Its Budget and Freeze Staff Hiring
IPS
Faced with an impending cash crisis primarily due to non-payment of dues by the US and over 100 other member states- along with threats of a US withdrawal from the world body-… Read more »
The Global Fund Will Roll Out the Twice-Yearly Anti-HIV Jab - With or Without PEPFAR
Bhekisisa
The major backer of the lenacapavir roll-out is assuring nervous researchers that they will keep their part of funding promises. It's a good economic investment, says the Fund's… Read more »
HIV Treatment Remains Free in Government Facilities - NACA DG
Premium Times
She urged the public to disregard the misinformation and avoid unnecessary panic, adding that NACA'S priority is to sustain the progress made in controlling HIV/AIDS in Nigeria Read more »
MoH Seeks an Additional Sh33.5bn to Finance Aid-Funded HIV Programs
Capital FM
Health Cabinet Secretary Deborah Barasa has announced that the Ministry is seeking Sh33.5 billion in emergency funding from the National Treasury to sustain critical health… Read more »
Solutions to TB and HIV Benefit All of U.S., North and South
IPS
In the west of Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria, where I come from, a tuberculosis outbreak is no different from one that takes place anywhere else in the world. A few dozen… Read more »
Trump Orders USAID-Funded HIV Organisations in South Africa to Shut Down
Bhekisisa
Pepfar-funded HIV organisations in South Africa, who receive their funds through the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, woke up to letters that were sent… Read more »
'We Were Told to Stop Everything Immediately' - Lesotho HIV Programmes Collapse After USAID Decision
GroundUp
Fear of a surge in new infections as antiretroviral medicines become harder to get Read more »
Solutions to TB and HIV Benefit All of Us, North and South [guest column]
allAfrica
In the west of Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria, where I come from, a tuberculosis outbreak is no different from one that takes place anywhere else in the world. A few dozen… Read more »
Research Hub Aims to Decode Health Challenges Facing 'People of the Dew'
spotlight
A new health research hub brings hope of improving health services in the Rustenburg Valley in the North West Province. Spotlight finds out more about how the Bafokeng Health and… Read more »
Trump to Slash USAID's Foreign Assistance Budget By 92 Percent
Premium Times
The agency said the slash in the USAID programme is part of a review to significantly reduce US foreign assistance to countries. Read more »
