Zimbabwean health minister David Parirenyatwa has reportedly challenged private manufactures in the country to produce condoms so as “to address concerns over the size of condoms imported from China”. According to NewsDay, Parirenyatwa said the move would also save on foreign currency. Parirenyatwa said this while speaking during the launch of the Zimbabwe Private-Sector HIV/Aids … Read more
The Ghana AIDS Commission says the prevalence of HIV/AIDS amongst the country’s youth in 2017, particularly those below the age of 24, rose to about 45% nationwide. The Commission attributed the upsurge to unprotected sex as well as low knowledge of the youth about the infection. Speaking at the launch of the 2018 World AIDS … Read more
The Ghana AIDS Commission says the prevalence of HIV/AIDS amongst the country’s youth in 2017, particularly those below the age of 24, rose to about 45% nationwide. The Commission attributed the upsurge to unprotected sex as well as low knowledge of the youth about the infection. Speaking at the launch of the 2018 World AIDS … Read more
The Ghana AIDS Commission says the prevalence of HIV/AIDS amongst the country’s youth in 2017, particularly those below the age of 24, rose to about 45% nationwide. The Commission attributed the upsurge to unprotected sex as well as low knowledge of the youth about the infection. Speaking at the launch of the 2018 World AIDS … Read more
About 30 journalists from 25 West and Central African countries have undergone capacity training on a new HIV Catch-Up Plan for the region where 4.7 million people living with HIV are not receiving treatment. Dubbed “Informing the Messengers”, the regional workshop organized by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), saw the selected journalists … Read more
A Ghanaian doctor at a hospital in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Dr. Samuel Amanamah, has successfully carried out Ghana’s first penile implant, here in the country. According to reports from the Peace and Love Hospital, this is the first penile implant surgery in Ghana, with Dr Amanamah and his team being the first Ghanaian doctors to carry … Read more
The rate of HIV-AIDS in Ghana has taken a rise in recent times, with activists warning that the situation could get worse if nothing is done. According to available records, the number of Ghanaians infected by HIV decreased drastically from 3.4% to 1.4% between 2003 and 2014. This figure has however risen again to 2.4%, stirring … Read more
Two hundred and seventy-five (275) people died of HIV/AIDS in the Ashanti Region, last year. Mr. Dennis Bandoh, the Regional Focal Person, who announced this, said late report to the health facilities and resort to the prayer camps for treatment, were to blame for the deaths. He was speaking at a pre-implementation meeting of an … Read more
Two hundred and seventy-five (275) people died of HIV/AIDS in the Ashanti Region, last year. Late reporting to the health facilities and resorting to the prayer camps for treatment were to blame for the deaths, the Regional Focal Perso, Mr. Dennis Bandoh, has revealed. He was speaking at a pre-implementation meeting of an HIV Advocacy Project in Kumasi. … Read more
Antibody helps keep man’s HIV at bay for 10 months An experimental therapy has held back one man’s HIV infection for 10 months, doctors have reported. He was one of 18 people in a small trial testing injections of “broadly neutralising antibodies” – the natural weapons of the immune system. They delayed the resurgence of … Read more
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 … Read more
Swaziland, which bears the world’s heaviest HIV burden, has halved the rate of new infections in five years by boosting access to virus-suppressing drugs, researchers said Monday. The country where about one in three adults are infected with the AIDS-causing virus, has vastly expanded public programmes to test people for HIV infection and put them … Read more
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 … Read more
A South African girl has become only the third child to beat the AIDS virus into long-term remission — almost nine years and counting — after receiving a drug cocktail in infancy, researchers announced Monday. The child was given a ten-month course of anti-AIDS medicine until she was one year old, then taken off the … Read more
Blandine, a 28-year-old mother of a baby girl, sits restlessly on a chair in a womens’ health centre in Cameroon’s capital, not knowing how or what to feel as she waits for an HIV test. But the waiting is not for her — it is to find out whether her one-year-old girl also has the … Read more
Progress in beating back the AIDS epidemic risks being eroded by a funding shortfall set to grow under Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to global health projects, experts and campaigners warned ahead of a major HIV conference. If adopted by Congress, the 2018 Trump budget could deprive some 830,000 people, mostly in Africa, from life-saving anti-AIDS … Read more
Aids deaths halve as more get drugs Deaths linked to Aids have halved in a decade, official figures shows. The condition, which is caused by HIV, used to be one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. A report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) showed deaths had fallen from a peak of … Read more
Deaths linked to Aids have halved in a decade, official figures shows. The condition, which is caused by HIV, used to be one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. A report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) showed deaths had fallen from a peak of 1.9 million in 2005 to … Read more
AIDS claimed a million lives in 2016, almost half the 2005 toll that marked the peak of the deadly epidemic, said a UN report Thursday proclaiming “the scales have tipped”. Not only are new HIV infections and deaths declining, but more people than ever are on life-saving treatment, according to data published ahead of an … Read more
One-hundred and thirty-two pregnant women in the Tema metropolis tested positive to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) between January and December 2016. The figure shows an increase over the 107 and 110 recorded in the metropolis in 2015 and 2014 respectively. HIV/AIDS Coordinator at the Tema Metropolitan Health Directorate, Madam Kathrine Dedo Kwao, disclosed this … Read more