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Tag: HIV
HIV Infected Organs Transplanted Successfully
In a breakthrough treatment, HIV-infected organs have been successfully transplanted into patients with HIV for the first time in the UK.
Early antiretroviral therapy helps suppress HIV and prevents transmission
Researchers have concluded in a decade long clinical trail that early intervention could help suppress HIV as well as prevent its sexual transmission in heterosexual couples. The results of an international clinical…
Are we closing-in on HIV vaccine? New vaccine shows promise in primates
Researchers have revealed success in lab experiments involving non-human primates (NHPs) and a HIV vaccine stating that their their HIV-1 vaccine regimen which involved a viral vector boosted with a purified envelope…
Longer secondary schooling proves effective in reducing risk of HIV infection
Amidst calls for doing more to curb the rate of new HIV infections, a study has suggested that longer secondary schooling has shown promise of substantially reduces the risk of HIV infection–especially…
Fighting the HIV stigma one touch at a time!
It has been years since HIV was first discovered and despite huge efforts from governments, non-profit organisations, medical experts and scientists to defeat the HIV stigma, there are plenty of people who…
Sustaining current efforts against AIDS not enough; epidemic could rebound in 5 years
Experts have warned that current efforts against AIDS and HIV aren’t enough and if the countries do not amp up their focus and efforts to curb the spread of AIDS, the epidemic…