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16 ISIS militants tested positive with AIDS in Syria’s Deiz ez-Zor
At least 16 cases of AIDS were reported in the ranks of the Islamic State radical group (IS/ISIS) in al-Mayadeen city in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, medical sources reported on...
19 august 2015
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Africa
Uganda holds beauty pageant for young people with HIV
The beauty pageant auditions for young people living with HIV started Monday in Fort portal Town.
18 august 2015
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Pakistan: Country’s biggest child abuse scandal jolts Punjab
GANDA SINGH WALA - Punjab’s leading child protection official has called for a federal inquiry into ‘the largest-ever child abuse scandal in Pakistan’s history’ after the...
14 august 2015
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Israeli scientist claims breakthrough in HIV research
A researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev found similarities between leukemia and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
14 august 2015
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Tanzania: People living with HIV seek support for their economic projects
People living with HIV in Rombo District, Kilimanjaro Region, have requested the government to support them in their entrepreneurial activities.
14 august 2015
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Uganda: Newly Diagonised HIV Patients to Start Immediate Treatment
Kampala — Researchers on HIV/Aids treatment want new HIV/Aids patients enrolled on anti-retroviral therapy upon testing positive as opposed to waiting for the CD4 cell count-test to drop...
14 august 2015
Statistics
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Africa
Kenya: HIV prevalence among female sex workers, gays rises: Report
Pastors of inter-denomination indigenous churches take part in a demonstration on the streets of Kakamega town in western Kenya to protest an alleged proposal to legalise same-sex relationships in...
14 august 2015
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People living longer with HIV, but First Nations, drug users, women with disease lag behind
Those with HIV are living about 16 years longer than they did in 2000.
14 august 2015
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Improved accessibility to methadone treatment reduces HIV spread
A recent study conducted by the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS shows that there has been improved access to methadone treatments from primary care, which has caused a decline in...
13 august 2015
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Africa
Zimbabwe: 28 percent of Zimbabwe’s prisoners HIV positive
Health minister David Parirenyatwa has called for action as it emerged that HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe’s crowded prisons has increased to 28 percent, with homosexual sex blamed for the...
13 august 2015
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Africa
Kenya: Misuse of antiretrovirals poses threat to HIV success story
In Kenya, misuse of life-saving antiretroviral drugs may be undermining the world’s greatest achievement to date in response to HIV.
12 august 2015
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Responses to updated U. S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy
President Barack Obama recently released a modified version of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, and several leaders and communities have issued their responses.
11 august 2015