Poor education, stigma fuel Philippines’ soaring HIV infections
By Lucille SODIPE HIV infections are soaring in the Philippines, with experts blaming online dating, poor sex education and conservative…
3 years ago
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New ‘highly virulent’ HIV strain discovered in the Netherlands
by Lucie AUBOURG WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Oxford researchers announced Thursday the discovery of a highly virulent strain of…
4 years ago
Tests of HIV vaccine using mRNA technology have begun
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Testing in humans of an HIV vaccine that uses messenger RNA technology has begun, the…
4 years ago
HIV drugs touted as weapon in war on coronavirus
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) -- As doctors scramble to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus, a potent brew of anti-retroviral and flu…
6 years ago
DOH awaiting test results if Chinese man who died of pneumonia had nCoV; initial test showed he was HIV+
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health is now awaiting the results of the confirmatory tests on a Chinese national…
6 years ago
Over 600 people test HIV positive in Pakistan city
Pakistan said on Sunday over 600 people, most of them children, had tested HIV positive in a city in southern…
7 years ago
US performs first kidney transplant from living donor with HIV
by Ivan Couronne WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- The kidney of a 35-year-old HIV-positive woman has been transplanted into another…
7 years ago
‘London patient’: second case ever of HIV remission
by Marlowe HOOD and Patrick GALEY Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- A second person is in sustained remission…
7 years ago
US charity school in Liberia in rape scandal storm; probe says charity co-founder who had died of AIDS raped school girls
MONROVIA, Liberia (AFP) -- An acclaimed US charity operating in Liberia has admitted to major failings after girls at…
8 years ago
UK blood contamination scandal victims can sue: court
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- Victims of a contaminated blood scandal in Britain which left at least 2,400 people dead,…
9 years ago
World lags badly on targets to slash TB, HIV, obesity: study
by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- Not a single country, out of nearly 200 reviewed,…
9 years ago
Pia Wurtzbach urges more HIV tests amid UN report that PHL has fastest growing infections in Asia
https://youtu.be/OWsY84JMz00 MANILA, Philippines (AFP) -- The Philippines' former Miss Universe conducted a public HIV test in Manila on Wednesday a…
9 years ago
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