Perspective: I’m a physician. Here’s why it’s important that we continue to help HIV patients overseas
Patients — especially, and most strikingly, young and otherwise healthy men — began appearing in doctor’s offices and ...
They were told they had just months to live. Decades later, they’re still here.
After more than three decades living with an illness that’s very different than it once was, he’s seen the ups, the downs and ...
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Nigeria set to begin production of HIV/AIDS test kits, anti-retroviral drugs
Dr Temitope Ilori, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), says plans are on to begin domestic production of HIV commodities before the end of 2025. Ilori made the ...
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Decoding HIV's tactics: RNA structures provide new insights into how virus hijacks cells
A team of scientists at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg and the University of Regensburg has unveiled insights into how HIV-1, the virus responsible ...
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Can You Get Infected With HIV From Oral Sex?
the risk is lower if they take medicine to treat HIV (antiretroviral therapy or ART). This suppresses the virus so it can't spread as easily. You can also take an HIV prevention medicine ...
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‘I had to tell my future husband I had HIV, and his reaction blew me away’ – woman on living with the virus and its myths
She is among a number of people with HIV who are taking part in a HSE campaign to address misconceptions around the virus and help reduce the stigma associated with it. The couple married five ...
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Suspected outbreak of Marburg virus kills eight in Tanzania, WHO says
NAIROBI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an ...
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What Is the Risk of Getting HIV From a Needlestick Injury?
The other risk factors for acquiring HIV after an accidental needle stick injury are the amount of blood transferred, the concentration of the virus, and the depth of ... to the advent of ...
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China CDC Issues Update on Virus Outbreaks
The samples were tested for a wide range of respiratory pathogens, including HMPV, COVID-19, influenza viruses, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), adenovirus, rhinovirus, enterovirus and ...
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Want to start a fight among virus experts? Ask about HIV’s new name
HIV-1 would henceforth be known as Lentivirus humimdef1. SARs-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid, would be known as Betacoronavirus pandemicum. Ebola was now Orthoebolavirus zairense.
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Should HIV Patients with Opportunistic Infections Receive Immediate ART?
Current guidelines do not clarify when HIV-positive patients with a newly diagnosed opportunistic infection (OI) should initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART; JW AIDS Clin Care Mar 30 2009).