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Uganda: Ugandan Develops App to Increase Access to HIV Prevention Drugs
Monitor, 17 December 2019
A mobile application 'PrEP Uganda' can now be downloaded from the Google play store for those who might need to get Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), a course of HIV drugs taken by… Read more »
Ugandan Develops App to Increase Access to HIV Prevention Drugs
A mobile application 'PrEP Uganda' can now be downloaded from the Google Play Store for those who might need to get Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), a course of HIV drugs taken by HIV-negative people to prevent infection. By the end of October 2019, an estimated 10,000 people were using PrEP in Uganda. Studies are on-going at different sites in the country to establish the efficacy and thereafter introduce injectable PrEP.
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Kenya: Sexual and Reproductive Health Services That Connects At-Risk Persons to PrEP in Kenya
allAfrica, 29 November 2019
In June 2017 the World Health Organization (WHO) updated their list of medicines deemed essential, these are drugs that every person should have access to, should they need it, no… Read more »
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Uganda: Uganda Recruits Women for New Trial in Injectable HIV Drug
East African, 7 November 2018
Uganda has started recruiting women for a clinical trial of a long-lasting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Read more »
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Africa: HIV Pill Stops 99 Out of 100 People from Getting HIV
Jobs-Liberia, 4 September 2019
Truvada (Generic Available) must be taken daily. Read more »
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Kenya has been carrying forward a lot of unspent money when there are some desperate countries in need of the money, Austin Demby, deputy director of the Office of Global Health ... Read more »
