Africa: End 'Punitive and Discriminatory Laws' to Beat AIDS
[UN News] Punitive and discriminatory laws that stigmatize marginalized communities are hindering the fight against HIV/AIDS, says a senior UN health expert, interviewed by UN News ahead of the 2022 International AIDS conference. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 29, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
South Africa: Spotlight On HIV - Six Graphs That Tell the Story
[spotlight] In 2021, HIV was successfully suppressed in the bodies of around 63% of the close to eight million people living with HIV in South Africa. This is according to the latest outputs from Thembisa, the leading mathematical model of HIV in South Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 28, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Millions of Lives At Risk As Progress Against AIDS Falters - United Nations
[UNAIDS] Montreal/Geneva -- Progress in prevention and treatment is faltering around the world, putting millions of people in grave danger. Eastern Europe and central Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa have all seen increases in annual HIV infections over several years. In Asia and the Pacific, UNAIDS data now show new HIV infections are rising where they had been falling. Action to tackle the inequalities driving AIDS is urgently required to prevent millions of new HIV infections this decade and to end the AID (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 28, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: UNAIDS Calls for Urgent Global Response to Monkeypox Public Health Emergency
[UNAIDS] Geneva -- UNAIDS today called on governments to respond urgently to the World Health Organization declaration of Monkey Pox as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. WHO has received reports over 16 thousand cases in 75 countries. The outbreak is occurring particularly, but not exclusively, among gay men and other men who have sex with men. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 28, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigeria Disagrees With Global Fund's Alleged Misappropriation of HIV Grants
[This Day] The federal government has rejected the alleged misappropriation of money obtained as grants from the United States-backed Global Fund to support HIV-AIDS related health interventions in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - July 25, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
