Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, is calling for Jamaicans to practise responsible sexual behaviour in order to prevent new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections. He said results from ...
The Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) in observation of its 25th anniversary, has launched a year-long public-education drive to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS. Dubbed ‘Stand United: Love. Action. Support’ ...
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today signed the Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities Ending the AIDS Epidemic, along with borough leaders, Public Health England and NHS England. Their ambition is to cut rates of new ...
Cities across England will participate in a three-year trial to test the effectiveness of the HIV prevention drug PrEP in what insiders have described as “the world’s biggest pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation trial.” Sexual health ...
While several recent reports have shown that new HIV diagnoses have been falling in U.K. gay men, what really matters is the actual number of new HIV infections, regardless of whether people are diagnosed or not ...
In a time before antiretroviral medications, it was populated by patients, often young men, facing a life cut brutally - and painfully - short. Six years later, Gideon Mendel spent time documenting the lives of four patients ...
Scaling up HIV testing to reduce undiagnosed HIV infection requires a fundamental re-ordering of HIV testing services to make them more attractive to people at risk, and doing so can bring about enormous changes ...
Volunteers are being sought to take a pill that mimics the effect of HIV to see if antibodies that fight the virus can be created in the most “at risk” parts of the body. The research team at Imperial College hope the pioneering trial will ...
The 56 Dean Street clinic has seen HIV patients fall by two thirds since 2015.The massive reduction in HIV rates is being put down to rigorous testing of people at high risk of infection, and the roll out of HIV-prevention ...
For the first time in the global AIDS epidemic that has spanned four decades and killed 35 million people, more than half of all those infected with HIV are on drugs to treat the virus, the United Nations said in a report released ...
