List/Grid Tag Archives: HIV/Aids
Those at risk of HIV to get preventive drugs
Source: Capital FM By WAMBUI NDONGA | April 4, 2013 NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 4 – Kenyans who are most at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS might soon have to start taking…
HIV Funding To Scale Down
Source: Citizen News Thursday, 04 April 2013 11:08 African countries have raised red flag that the planned cut in funding for HIV AIDS programme will greatly affect the fight against…
HIV test kits safe, Kenya assures
Source: Capital FM By OLIVE BURROWS | April 4, 2013 NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 4 – The Director of Public Health and…
Busia residents urged to boost their uptake of banana as it inhibits HIV/Aids
Source: Africa Science News Written by Joseph Abuje A local Non-Governmental Organization based in Western region of Kenya is calling on people especially in Sub-Saharan Africa to double their banana…
Political strife can breed drug-resistant HIV
Source: Futurity.org BROWN (US) — Political violence can have the long-term consequence of increasing viral resistance to treatment and HIV treatment failure. The researchers, who have studied post-strife treatment failure…
AIDS struggle can be won at last
Source: The Washington Post By:Michael Gerson Published: July 28, 2012 12:01 AM EST WASHINGTON – A memory from the AIDS crisis. It was 2005, the year that global AIDS deaths…
ARV drugs could effectively eradicate AIDS, say experts
Source: Standard Digital Updated Sunday, January 20 2013 at 00:00 GMT+3 By Bernard Muthaka In a shift in perception, experts are now looking at the power of Anti-Retroviral (ARV) drugs…
Assessing individual patient crucial when prescribing PrEP
http://www.healio.com/infectious-disease/ October 18, 2012 Judith Aberg, MD, SAN DIEGO — With three new studies this past year and the FDA approval of combination tenofovir/emtricitabine, pre-exposure prophylaxis has been a hot…
HIV survivors: alive, but facing poverty, loneliness and prejudice
SOURCE: The guardian By: Sarah Boseley in Washington 27 July 2012 In the 1980s and 1990s they were told they were going to die young, so they gave up their…
AIDS struggle can be won at last
SOURCE: Washington Post Michael Gerson Published: July 28, 2012 12:01 AM EST A memory from the AIDS crisis. It was 2005, the year that global AIDS deaths peaked at 2.3…
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