13 APRIL 2018 VOLUME 19 ISSUE 15

Many of the patients, doing well as a result of the ART, somewhere along the line, would stop taking the drugs, to seek permanent cure from the 'herbalist-turned-pastors'….Ms. Asante said the Regional AIDS Committee was deeply worried about the rate infected persons were defaulting and new infections, it had been seeing in spite of the gains made. She noted that 'the prayer camps' activities if not halted will derail efforts at achieving the 90-90-90.

The UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have released statements categorically rejecting recent media reports suggesting that a new, infectious and untreatable strain of HIV has been discovered in the Philippines.

A large proportion of hospitalised HIV-positive people in sub-Saharan Africa have experienced the failure of first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to a study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

A draft bill allowing HIV-positive people to donate organs to HIV-positive patients in need passed a preliminary review by a legislative committee in Taiwan on Thursday, a move that could save lives.

The Global Fund will fund Myanmar through UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) with 247.89 million dollars to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria between 2018 to 2020, Myanmar News Agency reported, on Thursday.

For years, HIV-positive individuals were prohibited from donating their organs after death. However, due to recent changes in federal and state law, Duke recently performed its first HIV-positive organ transplant.

South Florida's housing crunch and high HIV rates threaten disaster for its transgender population….In Miami-Dade County, where it's hard for anyone to find affordable housing, the need is urgent if you have HIV or AIDS. Those who study the connection say housing insecurity contributes to poor health outcomes for this population because it intensifies stress and interferes with their life-preserving medical regimen.

A vaccine developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School to prevent infection by HIV, the virus linked to AIDS, is about to undergo Phase I clinical trial testing at four sites around the country.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one of the largest populations affected by HIV/AIDS is young people between the ages of 13 and 24. And today, April 10, is National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The observance seeks to shed light on young people who are most at risk and talk about resources that are available for prevention and treatment.

Women's HIV is not being treated early enough, the Terence Higgins Trust has said, as it warns that campaigns are too focused on gay men.

International AIDS Society (IAS) has selected a 20 year old Tanaka Chirombo as a Global Youth Champion on HIV and AIDS to promote youth friendly HIV and AIDS service delivery in the country.

For many infectious diseases, for example foodborne infections, tuberculosis, and Ebola virus, identifying and controlling outbreaks is a routine component of the public health response. Although this approach has not been a traditional focus of prevention efforts for HIV, outbreaks of HIV occur.

This study sought to understand the relationship between physical, sexual and emotional childhood abuse and subsequent HIV-risk behaviours amongst young people (18–30) living in urban informal settlements in Durban, South Africa.