HIV drug resistance: brief report 2024
This brief report summarizes recent information on HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) in the era of integrase-strand transfer inhibitors (INSTI) for HIV prevention and treatment. In this report, WHO documents
AIDS
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CHINA
After Japan and the us , it is the turn of China. Months of secrecy later, Chinese health officials have confirmed that a certain brand of a common blood product called serum albumin, produced
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MUTUAL AGREEMENT
US haemophiliacs who contracted the AIDS virus from contaminated blood-clotting products have decided to accept a tentative US $650 million class action settlement of the lawsuit brought against the
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Three pronged attack
Promising results from new drug developments were discussed at the Vancouver AIDS conference but questions about their long term benefits and affordability remained lurking in the background
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SOUTH AFRICA
hiv -positive mothers double the risks of passing hiv to their babies through breast milk, suggests a controversial South African study. Breastfeeding is belie ved to be the best prevention
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SINGAPORE
With Asia fast outpacing sub-Saharan Africa as the region with the highest number of hiv -infected cases, asean members have decided to establish an aids centre to promote the
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CAMBODIA
After suffering years of war and tyranny, the Cambo dians are facing a new threat: an aids epidemic . An alarming rise in aids cases has been recorded ever since screening for the
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SOUTH AFRICA
Quelling fears about transmission of feline aids from lions to humans, a leading South African veterinarian, Dewald Keet has said that the disease which has infected 83 per cent of the lions in
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TWIN TROUBLES
A three-day SAARC meeting from September 23-25 on tuberculosis (TB) and AIDS, spelt out country specific action plan for managing the diseases. The meeting which was held in Kathmandu, revealed that
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Unscathed!
some people are born lucky. Take the case of a minute segment of humanity belonging to the white people of European ancestry. New research reveals that a small fraction of this community is