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A Monthly Pill Could Transform HIV Treatment And Prevention

August 27, 2025 3:01 pm

Tens of thousands of people living with HIV may soon swap their daily regimen of pills for a single tablet taken once a month. A landmark trial has found the new medication, developed by pharmaceutical giant Merck, to be as effective as the daily drug combinations currently used to keep the virus under control.

The pill belongs to a new class of drugs known as nucleoside reverse transcriptase translocation inhibitors, or NRTTIs. It works by blocking a critical step in the virus’s replication process, preventing HIV from embedding itself into the DNA chain. Researchers say the simplified dosing schedule could …

Botswana Smashes ‘Historic’ UN Goal Against HIV

Botswana Smashes ‘Historic’ UN Goal Against HIV

July 28, 2022 3:46 am

Botswana has officially become the second nation in the world, after Eswatini, to reach a landmark UN goal towards eradicating AIDS, researchers revealed Wednesday, in what health experts have described as ‘stellar results’.

Africa Today News, New York reports that the country has now met the so-called ’95-95-95′ target on HIV diagnosis, treatment and viral suppression several years early, according to a study published ahead of a global conference on the disease.

Currently about one in five people in Botswana live with the virus — one of the highest rates in the world — according to the UN AIDS agency …

'1M People Living With HIV In Mozambique Lack Access To ARVs'

‘1M People Living With HIV In Mozambique Lack Access To ARVs’

June 1, 2021 4:04 am

At least half of the two million people living with HIV in Mozambique are without access to treatment as the country ranked fourth in the world in terms of the new HIV infection rate.

Mozambican Health Minister Armindo Tiago made this revelation yesterday while launching the study result of the People Living with HIV (PLHIV) Stigma Index in Maputo.

Tiago said the country still needs to improve strategies to retain HIV patients in treatment.

Read Also: 1.3M Nigerians Now On HIV Treatment, NACA Reveals

‘HIV is a major problem in Mozambique, and we must work in all sectors to guarantee …

Invest More In HIV Prevention, Experts tell Federal Government

Invest More In HIV Prevention, Experts tell Federal Government

October 28, 2020 8:13 pm

Experts have called on the federal government and other stakeholders to invest more prevention of HIV infection interventions, while advocating for supportive policy and programmes.

Read Also: 65,185 Persons Living With HIV/AIDs In Akwa Ibom – Survey

They made the call at a media roundtable organised by AVAC Fellow 2020 in partnership with the Journalists Alliance for AIDS, JAAIDS, on the role of media in HIV prevention advocacy with the theme: “Advocating for supportive policy and programmes for effective HIV prevention interventions”.

The Key Population Advisor, Heartland Alliance, Mr. Michael said there was funding gaps for interventions needed by majority  …

Coronavirus Cure Not In Sight , HIV Drugs Fail

Coronavirus Cure Not In Sight , HIV Drugs Fail

April 24, 2020 2:15 pm
Hopes for Coronavirus cure are unrealistic for now, according to a new study of 86 patients in China.

In the study, promising HIV and antiviral drugs failed spectacularly to have effect on infected patients.

The patients who were given anti-HIV medication lopinavir/ritonavir or the flu tablets Arbidol did not improve any quicker than those treated with placebo .

Sufferers given the antivirals also reported side effects including diarrhoea, nausea, and loss of appetite.

For this reason, the researchers recommend that the drug should not be used as COVID-19 therapies.

Lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) was earmarked as one of the most promising …

What HIV Can Teach Us About COVID-19

What HIV Can Teach Us About COVID-19

April 4, 2020 6:46 am

From being a killer in the shadows, to having its own international day and UN programme, HIV’s emergence into a global reality can offer many lessons in how to respond to COVID-19, the head of the International Aids Society told AFP Thursday.

Kevin Osborne, who has lived with HIV for nearly half his life, says that beating the pandemic requires a drastic upscaling in testing, private sector funding for research, and a new approach to life as normal.

Q: What is the main thing HIV can teach us about COVID-19?

A: Something we learned belatedly with the HIV response was …

Soldiers Threatening To Rape Delta Women Arrested

Soldiers Threatening To Rape Delta Women Arrested

April 4, 2020 6:43 am

Nigerian Army said it has arrested soldiers in a trending video clips openly threatening to rape Warri women and girls and infect them with HIV.

This is coming after the Delta State Government had earlier dismissed the video as fake.

Soldiers in the footage issued the threat after their colleague was allegedly killed by residents in retaliation of the murder of Joseph Pessu on Thursday amid the COVID-19 lockdown.

Read Also: CUPP Cautions Army Over Threat To Rape Delta Women

“We will rape your women and give them HIV”, one of the personnel declared while protesting the death of a

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Second Patient Cured Of HIV, Say Doctors

Breakthrough As Second Patient Is Cured Of HIV – Doctors

March 10, 2020 1:43 pm

A man from London has become the second person in the world to be cured of HIV, doctors say. Adam Castillejo is still free of the virus more than 30 months after stopping anti-retroviral therapy.

He was not cured by the HIV drugs, however, but by a stem-cell treatment he received for a cancer he also had, the Lancet HIV journal reports.

The donors of those stem cells have an uncommon gene that gives them, and now Mr Castillejo, protection against HIV.

In 2011, Timothy Brown, the “Berlin Patient” became the first person reported as cured of HIV, three …

HIV

Africa: The Search For An Effective HIV Vaccine Continues

February 17, 2020 1:17 pm

 

An HIV vaccine trial that started in 2016 in South Africa was halted in February 2020. The study sponsors made the call after interim results showed that the vaccine, known as HVTN 702, did not prevent HIV. This result was disappointing, but the search for an effective HIV vaccine continues. Anatoli Kamali speaks to The Conversation Africa’s Ina Skosana about other developments in the field.

Why do we need an HIV vaccine?

HIV remains a dangerous pandemic. The number of new infections remains high – about 1.7 million new cases every year. Young people, particularly young women, account for

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