Darlington Phillips At the Inaugural Meeting of Global HIV Prevention Coalition held in Geneva (Switzerland) on October 10 to 11, StarTimes vice-president, Guo Ziqi, sent a strong message towards reaching the prevention targets of the 2016 Political Declaration on Ending AIDS. With this declaration, United Nations Member States have committed to reducing new adult HIV […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended simplified indicators to measure the reach of HIV services, and the impact achieved at both the national and global levels. The new Consolidated strategic information guidelines for HIV in the health sector, developed in partnership with the Global Fund, UNAIDS, UNICEF and the US President’s Emergency Plan for […]
A molecule that mimics a particular kind of protein has been demonstrated by a new study to render HIV vulnerable to antibodies that could kill infected cells, Medical News Today reports. Researchers from the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) Research Centre in Canada have described the molecule in question, JP-III-48, as acting like […]
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) says it will suppress HIV by 2020. In a statement on Thursday in Abuja by the Communication and Global Outreach Officer, UNAIDS Nigeria, Charles-Martin Jjuuko, Communication and Global Outreach Officer, UNAIDS Nigeria, the group had organised a one-day seminar on suppression of the disease under the […]
Despite tremendous progress in the fight against tuberculosis, almost half a million sufferers grapple with multi-drug resistant strains which are far harder to treat. The situation is worsened in Nigeria by co-infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), despite the over 37 million lives saved, much more needs […]