Gambia: 'The Weekly Prescription - Your Dose of National Well-Being': the Gambia's Unfinished Battle: the Presence of HIV
[The Point] Pharmd -- WORLD AIDS DAY EDITION (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - December 8, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs Gambia Health and Medicine West Africa Source Type: news
South Africa: Africa's First HIV Vaccine Trial Fails
[allAfrica] Harare -- An experimental HIV vaccine trial conducted in South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda was prematurely terminated due to preliminary findings indicating the vaccine would not be successful in preventing infection, Reuters reports. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - December 8, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs East Africa Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Tanzania Uganda Source Type: news
Southern Africa: Raising Our Hands Together - Toward an Aids-Free Future
[UNFPA] The young girls and boys raised their arms and stomped their feet during the opening of the 22nd International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (ICASA), their energy and hope blending with reflection and determination. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - December 8, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs Health and Medicine Southern Africa Source Type: news
'End of This Phase': Trial Halts Testing of HIV Vaccine Candidates
(MedPage Today) -- The PrEPVacc trial has stopped administering two investigational HIV vaccines that showed no efficacy in preventing infection, investigators announced on Wednesday during the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa... (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - December 7, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
HIV vaccine trial in Africa halted after disappointing initial results
African-led trial ended a year early as researchers conclude there is ‘little or no chance’ new combination vaccines cut HIV riskThefirst trial in Africa of two combination vaccines to prevent HIV has been halted after researchers concluded it was not working.The pre-exposure prophylaxis vaccine (PrEPVacc) was being tested on 1,500 people aged between 18 and 40 in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 7, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Samuel Okiror in Kampala Tags: Global development Aids and HIV Society Global health Uganda Tanzania South Africa Vaccines and immunisation World news Medical research Science Source Type: news
The Updated COVID-19 Shot Works on the Newest Variants
Every COVID-19 vaccine is a step behind the virus. In the time it takes companies to make the shot, SARS-CoV-2 is already busy mutating into different versions that can evade the immune response produced by it.
But even though the latest vaccine targets XBB.1.5, a variant no longer dominant in the U.S., it seems to be doing a decent job at warding off some of the emerging variants. In a study published on the preprint server bioRxiv, scientists led by Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Columbia University, report that the vaccine can generate strong antibodies that can neutralize not jus...
Source: TIME: Health - December 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Uganda: Self-Testing Kits Are Critical Tools in the Effort to End HIV
[Independent (Kampala)] News Analysis -- The most recent statistics from the Uganda Aids Commission show that Uganda registered 52,000 new HIV infections since the year began. Fort Portal and Mbarara cities took first and second positions respectively in HIV/AIDS prevalence in Uganda. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - December 7, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs East Africa Health and Medicine Uganda Source Type: news
Uganda: Antibiotic Resistance Is a Silent Epidemic
[Independent (Kampala)] Interview -- Each year antimicrobial resistance - the ability of microbes to survive agents designed to kill them - claims more lives than malaria and HIV/Aids combined. Africa bears the brunt of this development, which thrives on inequality and poverty. Nadine Dreyer asked Tom Nyirenda, a research scientist with over 27 years' experience in infectious diseases, what health organisations on the continent are doing to fight this threat to medical progress. Nyirenda is Extraordinary Senior Lecture in the Department of (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 7, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Uganda Source Type: news
Liberia: NACL, MOH, and AFL Commit to Unite in Combatting HIV and Aids
[FrontPageAfrica] Paynesville -- The National AIDS Commission of Liberia (NAC), Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) have vowed to form a united front to combat HIV and AIDS across Liberia. The institutions made the commitment at the event marking the observation of World AIDS Day in Liberia. The event, held at the Samuel K. Doe Sport Complex Basketball Gym in Paynesville on Friday, resonated with the global theme "Let Communities Lead" and the national theme "Communities Lead with Equality and Diversity to End (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - December 6, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs Health and Medicine Liberia West Africa Source Type: news
Nigeria: The U=U Advocacy Campaign - Ending Aids As a Public Health Threat
[Nigeria Health Watch] Nigeria ranks among the top three countries in the world with the highest burden of Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV), with over two million people living with HIV (PLHIV). To reduce the spread of the disease, significant scientific and clinical advances have been made towards developing effective HIV treatments. Launched by the Prevention Access Campaign, the Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) is an advocacy campaign to encourage adherence to HIV treatment, which enables viral load suppression, and (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 6, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Africa: UNFPA Adds Voice to Call to End Aids and New HIV Infections At One of the Largest International Conferences
[UNFPA] Harare, Zimbabwe -- The 22nd International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (ICASA) opened with a resounding call from key development partners - including UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency - to increase investments significantly, emphasizing the imperative to strive collectively towards ending AIDS by 2030. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 6, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa HIV-Aids and STDs External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Source Type: news
Russia's military has a major desertion problem
The Russian military is facing a wave of deserting soldiers as the country's 21-month war in Ukraine drags on. Idite Lesom, a Georgia-based group that aids troops attempting to leave Russian President Vladimir Putin's army, told The Moscow Times in an article published on Tuesday that it had…#russian #ukraine #iditelesom #georgia #vladimirputin #moscowtimes #grigorysverdlin #guardian #sergeikrivenko #citizenarmyrights (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
NCDs Are Killing the Caribbean – PODCAST
By Marty LoganKATHMANDU, Dec 5 2023 (IPS) If I asked you to name the world’s most deadly diseases I’m guessing that you might say HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, maybe even COVID-19. In fact, those have all been major killers throughout human history – and some like TB continue to be so, especially in low-income countries.
But there is one group of diseases that is responsible for the deaths of more than two-thirds of people on earth. Let that sink in for moment. For every three people who die, two are killed by these illnesses, which are known as non-communicable diseases, or NCDs.
You probably know about many of...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Marty Logan Tags: Headlines Health Latin America & the Caribbean Multimedia Podcast TerraViva United Nations Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) Source Type: news
Kenya: Justice Prevails - Kenyan Women Living With HIV Awarded U.S.$20,000 for Unlawful Sterilisation
[allAfrica] Four women, living with HIV, received compensation of U.S.$20,000 each after undergoing involuntary sterilisation without informed consent. In interviews with the BBC, they shared their harrowing experiences, after a nine-year legal battle. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 5, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs East Africa Health and Medicine Human Rights Kenya Legal and Judicial Affairs Pregnancy and Childbirth Women and Gender Source Type: news
Kenya: MSF's Statement Regarding Kenyan Sterilisation Case
[MSF] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been informed on 21 September of the ruling of the High Court of Kenya in the context of a lawsuit that was filed in 2014 by four people, three of which are former MSF patients, against five health institutions, including MSF. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 5, 2023 Category: OBGYN Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs East Africa Health and Medicine Human Rights Kenya Legal and Judicial Affairs Pregnancy and Childbirth Women and Gender Source Type: news
