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Africa: Paris Conference Highlights Africa's Aids Progress, but Fight Is Not Over
RFI, 25 July 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa has emerged as an unlikely leader in the fight against HIV/Aids at the Paris AIDs' conference. But activists say more must be done. Read more »
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Africa: Science Opens New Doors in Fight Against HIV
IAS, 24 July 2017
Studies point to new approaches and tools to strengthen the global HIV response Read more »
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Africa: Tide Turns in Aids Fight But Too Many Still Die
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 25 July 2017
"Stigma and a lack of information and knowledge about HIV and AIDS across Africa means a huge number of people are getting left behind" Read more »
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South Africa: Child Born With HIV Goes Into Remission
Nation, 25 July 2017
A nine-year-old South African child born with HIV has been able to control the virus without drugs for 8.5 years, scientists have reported. Read more »
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Africa: Global Govt Funding for HIV Falls to Lowest Level in Seven Years
UNAIDS, 21 July 2017
Donor government funding to support HIV efforts in low- and middle-income countries decreased by US$511 million from US$7.5 billion in 2015 to US$7 billion in 2016,… Read more »
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Southern Africa: U.S. Funding Helps Control HIV in Four Nations
State Department, 24 July 2017
Today, the United States announced that through support from the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) four African countries are approaching control of their… Read more »
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IAS, 25 July 2017
Researchers released data from five cutting-edge studies that show progress across several major HIV prevention approaches at an official press conference at the 9th IAS Conference… Read more »
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Eswatini: Swaziland Cuts HIV Infection Rate in Half
VOA, 25 July 2017
The U.S. government says the HIV epidemic is "coming under control" in Swaziland, the country with the world's highest prevalence of the virus. Read more »
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Africa: People Who Die From Aids Nearly Halved From 1.9 Million to 1 Million - UN
Vanguard, 20 July 2017
UN says the annual number of people who die from AIDS has nearly halved from 1.9 million to one million between 2005 and 2016. Read more »
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Africa: Anxiety As WHO Alerts On Spread of HIV Drug Resistance
Vanguard, 25 July 2017
As the world is battling the growing concerns about Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), leading to failure of treatment of major bacterial diseases, calls for collective response to… Read more »
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Africa: UN Health Agency Urges Early Action to Stave Off Threat of HIV Drug Resistance
UN News, 21 July 2017
The United Nations health agency has warned that the spread of an HIV strain resistant to some of the most widely used medicines could undermine global progress in treating and… Read more »
Tide Turning Against HIV & Aids But Funding Declines
A nine-year-old South African girl not treated for Aids since she was a baby is still suppressing the infection. And there is a prospect of treatment through monthly injections instead of daily pills. These are two of the good news stories from the world's pre-eminent conference on the science of HIV and Aids. But researchers are worried about declining government funding, particularly in view of President Donald Trump's proposal to slash public investments in the fight against global health threats.
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Since 2000, U.S. investments in health research and product development have delived numerous breakthroughs, such as new malaria drugs designed especially for children, which are ... Read more »
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A nine-year-old girl who was diagnosed with HIV at one-month old and put on anti-retroviral treatment has shown signs of suppressing the virus. This is the first case for Africa ... Read more »
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The 46-year-old gender activist became a leading voice in the country's struggle for HIV treatment after she was one of the first women to publicly disclose her HIV-positive status ... Read more »
Each of the studies highlighted in a conference this week "takes us one step closer to the end of HIV," says Linda-Gail Bekker, president of the International AIDS Society and director of South Africa's Desmond Tutu HIV Centre.
