Lesotho: Reproductive Health Nurse Sets an Example With Cervical Cancer Screening
[E.G. Pediatric Aids Foundation] Sister Mamofolo Khamokha Joined Egpaf Lesotho in 2019 as a sexual and reproductive health (SRH) nurse in Maseru district. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - November 17, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Is the First Country in Africa to Announce Regulatory Approval for Long-Acting Injectable Cabotegravir for HIV Prevention
[WHO] The Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) announced that it has approved the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - November 14, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: South Africa Expected to Begin Piloting HIV Prevention Shot in Early 2023
[spotlight] South Africa is expected to begin piloting the every-other-month HIV prevention shot early next year, according to the international medicine financing initiative Unitaid. New modelling released this week shows that the injection could prevent as many as 52 000 new HIV infections in the next two decades if rolled out nationally. But to be cost-effective in South Africa, the research suggests the price of the injection must fall to levels drugmaker ViiV Healthcare says are unrealistic. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - November 10, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Ghana: Bring Back the Fire of HIV/Aids Education!
[Ghanaian Times] HIV/AIDS began to be a crisis in the early 1980s, particularly in 1981 when cases were considered mysterious illness infecting gay men in urban areas in the United States. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - November 3, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Tanzania: Fishing Communities Trained On HIV Prevention
[Daily News] ABOUT 876 fishing communities at the coast of Indian Ocean in Dar es Salaam have been trained on best practice to prevent new HIV infection and other related sexual transmitted diseases. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - November 2, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Lesotho: Lesotho High Court Faults Imposition of Death Sentence On the Basis of HIV Status
[SALC] Court decision upholds that people living with HIV have the same right to life as all others (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - October 27, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Is The First County In Africa To Announce Regulatory Approval For Long-Acting Injectable Cabotegravir For HIV Prevention
[WHO] Today, the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe announced that it has approved the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - October 21, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Nigeria: 1.9 Million People Living With HIV Have Access to Free Treatments - USCDC
[Vanguard] Nigeria Country Director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USCDC), Dr. Mary Boyd has said that about 1.9 million people living with HIV in Nigeria have access to free treatments to save their lives. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - October 20, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Nigeria: How Alignment 2.0 Will Help Nigeria's HIV Response
[Daily Trust] Since the first case of HIV was reported in Nigeria in 1986, the country has continued to make strides and face challenges in preventing and managing the disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - October 18, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Interview - Prof Wendy Stevens On Following the Science, Even If It Means Swimming Against the Stream
[spotlight] When Wendy Stevens' mother succumbed to breast cancer in 2020, she left a series of letters to her four children that she had penned during her illness. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - October 12, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Tanzania: New Survey to Paint HIV Prevalence in Isles
[Daily News] Zanzibar -- Zanzibar will have its latest statistics on HIV/Aids prevalence after the Isles launched the 2022/23 Tanzania HIV Impact Survey (THIS). (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - October 8, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Gambia: Gambia Red Cross, UN Volunteers Support 11 Families With First Aid Boxes
[The Point] The Gambia Red Cross Society (GRCS), the main First Aid provider in The Gambia last Friday in collaboration with the United Nations Volunteers distributed First Aid boxes to 11 flood affected families currently hosted at the Friendship Hostel in Bakau. The presentation ceremony was held at the Friendship Hostel. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - September 28, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: How to Help People Stay On Antiretroviral Therapy When Life Gets in the Way
[The Conversation Africa] Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has turned HIV into a manageable chronic condition. When ART is working effectively, HIV cannot be transmitted. This allows people with HIV to live fuller lives without the fear of infecting others. It's also led global HIV control efforts to focus on increasing ART coverage. The aim is to improve the health of people living with HIV, and to decrease and eventually halt the spread of the virus. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - September 27, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Ghana: Go for HIV Test! ... NACP Urges Public As Infections Increase Across the Country
[Ghanaian Times] The National sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDs Control Programme (NACP) has implored the general public to take seriously testing to know their HIV status in the wake of increased infections across the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - September 26, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Communities of Faith Unite With Health Leaders to Reach All Children Affected By HIV
[UNAIDS] New York/Geneva -- Only half (52%) of the 1.7 million children living with HIV around the world had access to life-saving treatment in 2021, compared to 76% of adults. A recent report by UNAIDS, In Danger showed that every six minutes a child under the age of 15 died of AIDS last year. Too often, children's voices are not being heard and their needs are not being met. As a result, the gap in progress between adults and children is widening. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - September 24, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
