The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for scaling up testing and treatment for viral hepatitis, warning that the disease could kill more people than malaria, tuberculosis, ... Read more »
The 194 Member States of the World Health Organization are currently negotiating the first pandemic accord. Acknowledging that the world learned many hard lessons from the Covid-19 ... Read more »
South Africa has the world's largest ARV treatment programme. According to estimates from Thembisa, the leading mathematical model of HIV in South Africa, around 5.7 million Read more »
Research and analysis by Economist Impact, conducted across 13 African countries, demonstrates that fully financing the HIV response will save millions of lives and would produce ... Read more »
About 38 million people around the world are living with HIV. About 70% of them live in Africa. In 2021, there were 1.5 million new cases of HIV - just over 4,000 cases per day ... Read more »
Cabotegravir is a promising HIV prevention medication that's approved in countries like the United States. But in sub-Saharan Africa, access encounters a number of hurdles. Read more »
South Africa is expected to begin piloting the HIV prevention injection early next year as one of several projects that experts hope will reveal the answers to some of the biggest ... Read more »
A slowdown in the progress made during the past decade against maternal and infant mortality, is projected in the African region, Read more »
The world is not on track to end the Aids pandemic. Inequalities will prevent the world from meeting agreed on global targets on Aids, but a "feminist route map" can get countries ... Read more »
Ugandan Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) under the auspices of the Uganda Coalition for Access to Essential Medicines, have petitioned the health ministry over the shortage of ... Read more »
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