Follow AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-aids Thu, 20 Jan 2022 10:59:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplmbrS-aHk5Liu4sICfMfkNm [New Times] The Ministry of Health of Health on Wednesday January 19 acquired 349,393 bottles of Tenofovir/Lamivudine/Dolutegravir (TLD - B/90) tablets, to be distributed to all Rwandans living with HIV/AIDS.]]> Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:55:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplmbrS-aHk5Liu4sICfMfkNm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplkb21kz7lNNYuGkz6RCC25z [Daily Trust] The Federal Government on Tuesday launched a national HIV self-testing (HIVST) and Pre-Exposure (PrEP) communication strategy.]]> Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:09:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplkb21kz7lNNYuGkz6RCC25z https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplmsVZjAzHH5dGhamfNIiY2W [spotlight] COVID-19 will continue to dominate headlines in 2022, but from National Health Insurance to the availability of a new HIV prevention injection, it will also be an important year for other areas of health service delivery and for health system governance and reforms in South Africa. Here is Spotlight's pick of the top ten issues to keep an eye on.]]> Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:40:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplmsVZjAzHH5dGhamfNIiY2W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplkLgN9P_XvAJdKEpFgimKzx [The Herald] VICTORIA Falls has started implementing HIV mass viral load collection activities to ensure that every HIV positive patient in the city is virally suppressed by year end, a development health experts said results in the virus being undetectable.]]> Tue, 18 Jan 2022 09:38:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplkLgN9P_XvAJdKEpFgimKzx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnhB7nbCVreqZONpYks2fGs [WHO] Cabotegravir extended-release suspension, a long-acting integrase inhibitor, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on 20 December 2021. It is administered through an intramuscular injection by a health care worker every 2 months and can be offered to adults and adolescents weighing at least 35 kilograms to reduce the risk of sexually acquired HIV.]]> Tue, 18 Jan 2022 08:33:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnhB7nbCVreqZONpYks2fGs https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplnc5KelXycTFsqq6eZJzUh9 [Ghanaian Times] The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has expressed worry about the decline in the intake of anti-retroviral drugs, and urged people suffering from HIV to take their medication seriously.]]> Tue, 11 Jan 2022 13:05:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplnc5KelXycTFsqq6eZJzUh9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnVQyHS8VBfTVe5jCclomp- [UNFPA] The COVID-19 pandemic has reversed some of the hard-won gains in the global HIV response-this was one of the key takeaways at the recent International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) in Durban, South Africa.]]> Fri, 07 Jan 2022 10:08:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnVQyHS8VBfTVe5jCclomp- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplmaT_TLsdE9sjRQaTQYXBS9 [Daily Maverick] South Africa's scientists are building on the knowledge they gained in their fight against HIV and are today keeping a sharp eye and keen mind on SARS-CoV-2 and its evolving variants.]]> Thu, 30 Dec 2021 11:17:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplmaT_TLsdE9sjRQaTQYXBS9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplk_PNswlY_6TVw3HFUzDTIP [WHO-AFRO] Abuja -- The emergence of the COVID 19 omicron variant, has continued to rage, with attendant consequences. The situation is posing an even greater strain on progress with ending AIDS, disrupting HIV prevention and treatment services, schooling, violence prevention programmes and more.]]> Fri, 24 Dec 2021 09:46:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplk_PNswlY_6TVw3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xpln5gpEq25K4XgaB2UxGNFpJ [The Herald] Despite the advances that have been made against HIV, the world has 37 million people living with HIV.]]> Thu, 23 Dec 2021 15:26:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xpln5gpEq25K4XgaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplneGttBlRZvEfdczOo_8W9B [Ghanaian Times] The Food and Drug Authority (FDA) in partnership with the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) has launched a drug abuse campaign to mitigate substance abuse among the youth in the country.]]> Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:19:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplneGttBlRZvEfdczOo_8W9B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplnd6PObSV6w1Qpx5_w21kha [New Republic] A Liberian Humanitarian group under the banner, Armah and Lyndia Foundation has donated several assorted food items valued at nearly Forty-Five Thousand Liberian Dollars to the Mother Victoria Thomas Orphanage Home in New Matadi Community.]]> Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:25:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplnd6PObSV6w1Qpx5_w21kha https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplnliqe-7LWRV3OFESPuQWsX [Ghanaian Times] Hwediem -- The United State President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Ghana on Tuesday took its Anti -Stigma and Discrimination Campaign on HIV to Hwediem in the Ahafo Region.]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:36:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplnliqe-7LWRV3OFESPuQWsX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnL-vu88nM3vG0dX84dnP8Y [Nile Post] Movit Products, a cosmetics firm, has urged Ugandans especially the youth to be at the forefront of the fight against HIV/AIDS in the Country.]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08:50:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnL-vu88nM3vG0dX84dnP8Y https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XpllZXKiXslgyojErtZyObPkc [Ghanaian Times] The Ayawaso North Municipality in the Greater Accra Region continue to record four new cases of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) every month, the Municipal Health Director, Dr Sophia Quist, has revealed.]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:00:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XpllZXKiXslgyojErtZyObPkc https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplk2K895Lkp17ioxzwoq1nFt [Africa Check] Can eating and using various parts of the banana plant protect you against cancer, diabetes, HIV and a multitude of other afflictions?]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2021 14:57:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplk2K895Lkp17ioxzwoq1nFt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xpll_kCpiW7bl32ZMehmtHS8- [Nation] Experts have warned of increased Tuberculosis (TB) deaths among people living with HIV for the first time in over a decade.]]> Tue, 14 Dec 2021 08:40:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xpll_kCpiW7bl32ZMehmtHS8- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XpllPuBh6ggX5nclTP0vptTFR [Cameroon Tribune] The 15th ordinary session of the International Scientific Council held yesterday, December 9, 2021.]]> Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:36:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XpllPuBh6ggX5nclTP0vptTFR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplngx_1ZPfoKIGW0GqTRQSgk [WHO] Geneva -- Inequities have been widely acknowledged as barriers to achieving global and national goals and targets in HIV, TB and malaria programs. However, the magnitude and extent of underlying health inequalities have remained poorly documented and understood.]]> Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:43:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplngx_1ZPfoKIGW0GqTRQSgk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XpllULSyX4gUOjavLeqE6yv18 [WHO] The non-profit International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) has announced that it has voluntarily withdrawn its New Drug Application (NDA) for the dapivirine vaginal ring (DVR) for HIV prevention among cisgender women from the USA Food and Drug Administration (USFDA). This decision was made following feedback during the agency's review that current data are unlikely to support USA approval at this time, given the current HIV epidemiology and the prevention landscape for women in the United States of Am]]> Fri, 10 Dec 2021 09:17:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XpllULSyX4gUOjavLeqE6yv18