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Rwanda: MOH Turns to New Method to Increase Voluntary HIV Testing
Rwanda: MOH Turns to New Method to Increase Voluntary HIV Testing
The Ministry of Health has expressed optimism that the new “finger prick” HIV/AIDS testing method would encourage more people to seek voluntary counseling and testing services as part...
20 august 2015
USA: New HIV cases on the rise in Florida
USA: New HIV cases on the rise in Florida
MIAMI -- Health officials in Florida are seeing a resurgence in HIV cases, especially among adolescents and young adults. After three decades of medical advances against the potentially-deadly...
20 august 2015
India: Mobile application on HIV/AIDS launched
India: Mobile application on HIV/AIDS launched
Mobile application will provide complete information on HIV, increase awareness and risk perception as well as prompt users to access HIV testing from the nearest centre free of cost.
20 august 2015
UNAIDS report : Investing in community responses to HIV
UNAIDS report : Investing in community responses to HIV
There is widespread recognition that community responses to HIV need to be scaled-up, resourced at much higher levels and integrated into national AIDS plans if UNAIDS Fast-Track...
20 august 2015
16 ISIS militants tested positive with AIDS in Syria’s Deiz ez-Zor
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
Uganda holds beauty pageant for young people with HIV
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
Pakistan: Country’s biggest child abuse scandal jolts Punjab
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
Israeli scientist claims breakthrough in HIV research
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
Tanzania: People living with HIV seek support for their economic projects
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
Uganda: Newly Diagonised HIV Patients to Start Immediate Treatment
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
Kenya: HIV prevalence among female sex workers, gays rises: Report
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
People living longer with HIV, but First Nations, drug users, women with disease lag behind
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