BREAKING
Home » Posts Tagged "AIDS"

Brazil: More than 52,000 young people aged 15 to 24 with HIV have evolved to AIDS in the last ten years

By

The advances that science and technology have brought to the fight against HIV are significant. Knowing the positive serology at an early stage greatly increases the expectation and quality of life of...

Democratic Republic of the Congo: 14,000 people died of HIV/AIDS in 2021

By

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Based on UN/AIDS figures, Dr Gisèle Mucinya, medical referent for the HIV/AIDS project within MSF, affirms that 14,000 people died of HIV/AIDS in 2021, in the DRC. She points to...

Philippines officials report 41 HIV cases daily on average

By

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Philippines health officials are reporting an increase in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) cases in 2022, according to the latest data. The Epidemiology Bureau of the Department...

Ukraine reports nearly 1400 HIV cases in February

By

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Ukrainian health officials reported in February 2021, 1,395 new cases of HIV infection were officially registered in Ukraine. In addition, 389 patients were diagnosed with AIDS,...

Republic of the Philippines

Philippines reports 21 new HIV cases every day: Health officials

By

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 The Philippines has one of the fastest-growing HIV epidemics in the world and country public health officials say that the 21 new HIV cases diagnosed every day means that the...

Peru: Number of people with HIV receiving treatment has doubled since 2013

By

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Peru health officials reported yesterday that 81% of people living with HIV in the country have access to the free antiretroviral treatment provided by the Ministry...

Philippines: HIV cases ‘drastically increased over the last couple of years’

By

The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) continues to report alarmingly high numbers of HIV and AIDS cases as they gear up to battle the epidemic with a new campaign,  LHIVE FREE. “The number of Filipinos...

New Data Show Dramatic Progress in Namibia Toward HIV Epidemic Control and Substantial Gaps in Cote d’Ivoire and Cameroon

By

The Government of the Republic of Namibia, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and ICAP at Columbia University (ICAP)...

Research Shows a Promising New Class of Antibodies Protects Against HIV-1 Infection

By

A group of scientists at Texas Biomedical Research Institute have zeroed in on a new defense against HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS. Led by Ruth Ruprecht, M.D., Ph.D., the team used an animal model...

HIV/AIDS expert, Dr. Robert Redfield selected to run CDC

By

The Department of Health and Human Services said that Secretary Alex Azar will name HIV/AIDS specialist Robert R. Redfield, M.D., as the 18th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...