HIV

A Zimbabwean health worker administers an HIV test

Zimbabwe Fights HIV – Some Resist Treatment

HARARE, Zimbabwe – Michelle and Michael Mutsvaki contracted HIV from their mother at birth, but while their parents have rejected antiretroviral (ARV) medication, the siblings have chosen treatment. The siblings, aged 22 and 24, learned about their HIV status from their mother,

May 6, 2024

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe surpasses global target on HIV treatment: report

Zimbabwe has achieved and surpassed the global target on HIV testing, treatment and viral suppression, three years ahead of the set time, state news agency New Ziana reported on Wednesday. The Joint UN Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) aims for HIV testing, treatment

November 9, 2022

Africa

Africa HIV deaths ‘could rise by 500,000’ amid pandemic : WHO

More than half a million people in Africa could die between now and next year from Aids-related illnesses amid the Covid-19 pandemic – unless governments move to address the issue. A modelling analysis done by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAids

May 12, 2020

Health & Fitness

Scientists say they found a cure for HIV in some mice, humans could be next

Researchers say they have removed HIV from the DNA of mice, an achievement the scientists say could be an early step toward an elusive cure for humans. The breakthrough, detailed earlier this week in a study credited to more than 30 scientists

July 5, 2019

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe dismisses concerns about ‘expired’ anti-retrovirals

Zimbabwean authorities have tried to allay fears that anti-retroviral drugs being dispensed by public health facilities six months after their expiry were harmful to users. This is after people living with HIV/Aids came forward to say that a consignment of the drugs,

May 20, 2019

Breaking News·Zimbabwe

Disapprove Walter Magaya claims Ministry told

The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has called on the government to publicly censure Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya for his unverified claims that he has discovered the cure for HIV/Aids. The Doctors called the

October 29, 2018

Zimbabwe

United Nations: More than 50% of Zimbabwean Sex workers living with HIV

THE prevalence of HIV is increasing among Africa’s sex workers with half of sex workers in Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe are living with HIV, a United Nations agency has revealed. In its Data 2018 report, UNAIDS noted that key populations

July 21, 2018

Africa

Vaginal ring preventing HIV to be tested across Africa

After recording success amongst teenage girls in the US, plans are in progress to test in Africa, a vaginal ring that prevents HIV infection. The ring contains an antiretroviral drug called dapivirine and is used for a month at a time. Dapivirine

July 25, 2017

Health & Fitness·South Africa

South African 9 year old child ‘virtually cured’ of HIV

A nine-year-old infected with HIV at birth has spent most of their life without needing any treatment, say doctors in South Africa. The child, whose identity is being protected, was given a burst of treatment shortly after birth. They have since been

July 25, 2017

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