HIV

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 and viral suppression rates to be 95% by 2025. Of all the HIV-positive […]

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 shows that the impact of a six-month disruption of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy could […]

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 from Temple University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center, was made possible […]

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, which initially expired in June 2018 and whose shelf life was extended by […]

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 charismatic prophet to publicly reverse his claims as they will pose a danger […]

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 account for almost half of all new HIV infections worldwide. It said the […]

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 inhibits HIV’s reverse transcriptase enzyme, a protein vital to HIV’s ability to replicate […]

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 off drugs for eight-and-a-half years without symptoms or signs of active virus. The […]