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 Sat, 02 Jul 2022 23:15:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplmvfGtrrP1cv6JCIqJppjfU [Daily News] MINISTER of State in the Prime Minister's Office (Policy, Coordination and Parliament), Mr George Simbachawene has underscored the need for Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS) to spend the 55.2bn/- of the Timiza Malengo project to control new infections among the youth.]]> Thu, 30 Jun 2022 07:00:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplmvfGtrrP1cv6JCIqJppjfU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnCO2qdCTuQqJNaYRWadcX6 [Capital FM] Nairobi -- Mother-to-child HIV transmissions have been named as the main setback to reducing new infection rates in the country.]]> Wed, 29 Jun 2022 07:26:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnCO2qdCTuQqJNaYRWadcX6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnqsVyxGKxrt2w5Ur-z5Bww [Nigeria Health Watch] From the Darkest of Days to a New dawn: 35 years of the Nigerian Response to HIV and AIDS is the title of a seminal book just published by a team of institutions that have been part of the AIDS response in Nigeria, for the past 35 years. The book was launched on the 14th of June 2022 to mark the departure of the Country Director of UNAIDS, Dr Erasmus Morah from Nigeria to a new assignment in China. During his busy tenure in Nigeria, he supported two historical events, the National HIV/AIDS Indicator and Im]]> Tue, 28 Jun 2022 06:56:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnqsVyxGKxrt2w5Ur-z5Bww https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnqsVyxGKxrtyuZukmJ4mr4 [Leadership] No fewer than 77 out of 2,156 persons tested HIV positive during mass test conducted by Taraba State Agency for Control of AIDS. The mass testing and treatment project in the state was to ensure a HIV free society in Taraba State by 2030.]]> Tue, 28 Jun 2022 06:53:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnqsVyxGKxrtyuZukmJ4mr4 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplm-OSIauN4KsgBC78OgjhDM [The Herald] The recent landmark Constitutional Court judgment aligning the minimum age of sexual consent to the age of marriage raising it from 16 to 18 years is set to benefit the fight against HIV, Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Constantino Chiwenga has said.]]> Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:43:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplm-OSIauN4KsgBC78OgjhDM https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplleHuoydgg8lgp41t9tiERU [WHO] The World Health Organization (WHO) has published new treatment recommendations for visceral leishmaniasis in patients who are coinfected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The guideline targets visceral leishmaniasis in East Africa and South-East Asia.]]> Mon, 20 Jun 2022 10:04:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplleHuoydgg8lgp41t9tiERU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnSYLIDQH8vGQX50KYzL9tX [UNAIDS] Geneva -- This year's UNAIDS performance report demonstrates how the UN Joint Programme on HIV and AIDS has critically contributed to key areas of the global HIV response and to saving lives, even in the face of the severe challenges and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and financial shortfalls impacting the global HIV response and UNAIDS.]]> Sun, 19 Jun 2022 14:58:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnSYLIDQH8vGQX50KYzL9tX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnxnCFSP52mA0oy9CZgXDJO [New Frame] Homegrown solutions built on regional knowledge addressed the Aids and tuberculosis epidemics. The same approach can be applied to other health crises for the benefit of humanity.]]> Sat, 18 Jun 2022 20:57:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnxnCFSP52mA0oy9CZgXDJO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplkNxcel01QCU2hamfNIiY2W [AIM] Maputo -- Currently about 1.7 million HIV-positive Mozambicans are undergoing treatment with the life-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs (ARVT), according to Prime Minister Adriano Maleiane, speaking on Wednesday at the opening session of a meeting of the Steering Council of the National AIDS Commission (CNCS).]]> Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:59:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplkNxcel01QCU2hamfNIiY2W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplkNxcel01QCUwX50KYzL9tX [AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) and the National AIDS Commission (CNCS) on Wednesday called for greater efforts to implement legal mechanisms to protect HIV-positive citizens.]]> Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:59:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplkNxcel01QCUwX50KYzL9tX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnnEFqKIJV9k0oy9CZgXDJO [Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- The Constitutional Court in Kampala on Tuesday, June 7th started hearing the petition against the HIV Prevention and Control Act, 2015 after six years of filing.]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:53:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplnnEFqKIJV9k0oy9CZgXDJO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplk8LX_WL7OoDXHnycKeoCpf [This Day] The United States government has contributed $6 billion to assist Nigeria in her fight against the human immunodeficiency viruse (HIV) over the past 35 years.]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2022 08:08:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplk8LX_WL7OoDXHnycKeoCpf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplkqzw84Nf7XdkQqW5gBv7mX [Premium Times] The NEPWHAN coordinator, Mr Ibrahim, said from its peak of 5.8 per cent in 2001, HIV prevalence in Nigeria decreased to 1.3 per cent in 2018.]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2022 06:38:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplkqzw84Nf7XdkQqW5gBv7mX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xpllgigwr7jve9XtuT6pSmY81 [UN News] To end AIDS, beat COVID-19 and "stop the pandemics of the future", the world needs to ensure global access to lifesaving health technologies, the UN Chef de Cabinet has told a meeting of the General Assembly to review progress.]]> Mon, 13 Jun 2022 06:58:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xpllgigwr7jve9XtuT6pSmY81 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplkYbPqEE3jPHYIAmcWJ0TmB [IPS] Durban -- Africa is plagued by many epidemics -- from tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS to malaria and wild polio -- but the continent has also worked for decades to fight these threats. The key to beating these deadly diseases is turning inward to existing expertise and finding locally driven solutions.]]> Sat, 11 Jun 2022 17:50:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplkYbPqEE3jPHYIAmcWJ0TmB https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplmd-MKTikzAC3HnycKeoCpf [New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) is seeking freedom for its client being charged with deliberate infection of HIV after she allegedly infected her boyfriend.]]> Thu, 09 Jun 2022 15:45:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplmd-MKTikzAC3HnycKeoCpf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplmfvuOzKuo91DHgrmwRGUK6 [The Conversation Africa] Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most deadly infectious diseases. Around 9.9 million people around the world fell ill with the disease in 2020 and an estimated 1.5 million people died.]]> Tue, 07 Jun 2022 09:20:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplmfvuOzKuo91DHgrmwRGUK6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplmEvKoIZVFqYbmyhX6zo8SW [spotlight] The introduction of the antiretroviral drug dolutegravir arguably represents the biggest advance in HIV treatment in the last decade. Dolutegravir is highly effective at suppressing HIV in the body, it has fewer side effects than the drugs it is replacing, and HIV struggles to become resistant to it. It is also cheap.]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2022 14:43:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplmEvKoIZVFqYbmyhX6zo8SW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplm9gED5bBUPvp8v71dCn6bG [AIM] The United States government, through its President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), on 23 May approved US$404 million to support Mozambique in the fight against HIV/AIDS. This will support the Country Operational Plan (COP) from October 2022 to September 2023 (also known as COP22) and is part of the US$4.9 billion that the United States has made available to Mozambique in the fight against HIV since 2004.]]> Tue, 31 May 2022 09:20:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16Xplm9gED5bBUPvp8v71dCn6bG https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplmJHTA-Z2f9THCrAHWlao0B [Nyasa Times] The National Aids Commission (NAC) has called upon the Malawi Police Service (MPS) to take a leading role in the dissemination of the HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Management) Act 2018 in the country.]]> Fri, 27 May 2022 10:27:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/yyVvl16XplmJHTA-Z2f9THCrAHWlao0B