Africa: New U.S.$1 Price for HIV Self-Tests
[WHO] A new partnership announced today between the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), MedAccess, and Wondfo Biotech Company will make an HIV self-test available for US$ 1 to the public sector in low- and middle-income countries, marking it as lowest ever priced WHO prequalified HIV self-test. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - August 3, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Kenya: President Paid for Deputy Ruto's 'HIV Treatment'? No, Newspaper Front Page Doctored
[Africa Check] An image that appears to be the front page of Kenya's Star newspaper claims the country's president settled the bill for his deputy's HIV treatment. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - August 2, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Kenya: Kenyan President Kenyatta Paid for Deputy Ruto's 'Hiv Treatment'? No, Newspaper Front Page Doctored
[Africa Check] An image that appears to be the front page of Kenya's Star newspaper claims the country's president settled the bill for his deputy's HIV treatment. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - August 2, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Researcher Wins Award for Research on HIV-Associated Cancer
[UCT] University of Cape Town (UCT) researcher Dr Katherine Antel has been selected by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to receive the 2022 ASH Global Research Award to support her work in HIV-associated lymphoma (a type of cancer). Dr Antel is one of 13 talented early-career investigators selected for this honour. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - August 2, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: New Global Alliance Launched to End AIDS in Children By 2030
[WHO] Montreal / Geneva / New York -- Globally, only half (52%) of children living with HIV are on life-saving treatment, far behind adults where three quarters (76%) are receiving antiretrovirals, according to the data that has just been released in the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2022. Concerned by the stalling of progress for children, and the widening gap between children and adults, UNAIDS, UNICEF, WHO and partners have brought together a global alliance to ensure that no child living with HIV is denied treatment by the end of the decade an (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - August 2, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: SAHPRA Announces Approval of Breakthrough Treatments for Children with HIV
[South African Health Products Regulatory Authority] SAHPRA has registered a new "sweet-tasting" combination antiretroviral treatment for infants and young children with HIV. This treatment comes in granules that can be sprinkled on soft food or dissolved in milk or water. Furthermore, this treatment does not require refrigeration. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - August 1, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Uganda: Uganda Makes Progress in HIV/Aids Fight but Risks Remain - Report
[Nile Post] At least158 people get infected with HIV/AIDS in Uganda daily (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - August 1, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Experts Welcome New HIV Treatments for Children
[spotlight] In a move widely welcomed by local experts, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) recently approved new child-friendly formulations of several important antiretroviral medicines. The approvals promise to make life easier for children living with HIV in South Africa but it will take a while before all children have access to the new medicines. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - August 1, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: UN, Others Worried As Global Response to HIV Declines
[Premium Times] The report noted that globally, 4,000 people a day are still being infected with HIV and that if current trends continue, 1.2 million people will be newly infected with HIV in 2025 (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 31, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Aids Leaders Raise Alarm On the Danger of Millions of Preventable Deaths
[UNAIDS] Montreal/Geneva -- At the launch of UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2022 global AIDS leaders united in a call to prevent millions of new HIV infections and millions of AIDS-related deaths. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 31, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Production Approved of Generic Injectable HIV-Prevention Drug for Sub-Saharan Africa
[VOA] Geneva -- Global health agencies say a voluntary licensing agreement has been reached to allow for the generic production of the first and only long-acting injectable HIV-prevention drug. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 30, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Canada - Global Aids Conference Kicks Off Amid Fury Over Visas
[DW] Philomena Gori had a lot riding on her attendance of the 24th International AIDS Conference, which kicks off in the Canadian city of Montreal on Friday. The biennial event brings together thousands of scientists, politicians, activists and social workers from around the world to find solutions to the HIV epidemic. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 30, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Unsung Living HIV/Aids Hero Spreads Message of Hope
[IPS] Chitungwiza -- In 2001, when Reki Jimu was 30 years old, his wife died aged 27. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 30, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Mozambique: Half a Million HIV-Positive People Abandon Anti-Retroviral Treatment
[AIM] About 500,000 people living with HIV in Mozambique have abandoned anti-retroviral treatment in the last two years, which is an estimated 25 per cent of all HIV-positive people in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 29, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: WHO Recommends Accelerated Access to New Game-Changing HIV Prevention Drug
[MSF] As the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) for HIV prevention, and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and UK pharmaceutical corporation ViiV Healthcare announced an agreement to open up generic production and supply of CAB-LA in 90 countries, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called on governments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to urgently include this drug in national HIV guidelines and accelerate its rollout to prevent HIV transmission. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 29, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
