The Bihar Health Department has issued the notification of Bihar Epidemic Diseases Covid-19 Rules 2023 regarding effective control over Bihar Epidemic Covid-19. In the new rules, the responsibility of all the hospitals from the state level to the district level has been fixed for its control. In the manual prepared …
Ongha-At least 472 people living with HIV defaulted on receiving treatment at the ART (antiretroviral therapy) clinic at Ongha Health Centre. The figure makes up 10 percent of those who tested positive at the centre to the virus that causes AIDS. In total 4,121 people are known to be living …
THE Government is rolling out the newly proven HIV prevention method of taking an antiretroviral drug before exposure to HIV risk (known as preexposure prophylaxis - PrEP). A report on New Vision TV quoted Dr Flavia Namatovu saying the new method of HIV prevention will be rolled out in seven …
The government has been asked to scale up its funding of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes to sustain the fight against the spread of the infection. Ghana has been relying heavily on donor support for the implementation of programmes to control the disease and this is raising serious questions about sustainability. The …
CAPE TOWN South Africa (Xinhua) -- The estimated overall HIV prevalence rate is approximately 12.6 percent among the South African population, the highest prevalence in the world, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Monday. The total number of people living with HIV is estimated at approximately 7.06 million in …
Paris – At least 30 to 40 percent of people who are HIV positive in sub-Saharan Africa are dying due to late diagnosis and treatment failure, Medecins Sans Frontiers has said. MSF, an international medical humanitarian organisation, said one third of the estimated 30 to 40 percent deaths occurred within …
Celeste is a 30-year-old widow mother of two from the poor suburbs of Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. She is HIV-positive, and since her husband died from an Aids-related illness last year, she has no way of supporting herself, though she tries to help her mother work her small vegetable patch. One …
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 …
A package of low-cost drugs designed to prevent deadly infections among people who are starting HIV treatment late could save 10,000 lives a year across sub-Saharan Africa, scientists believe. About one in five people who start HIV treatment in poorer countries are doing so later than advisable, which means they …
Ahmedabad: Leading cardiologists from across India debated how 'sugar might be the new cholesterol' for people at risk of heart disease, as any excess amount consumed is converted to fat! Dr G R Kane, a senior cardiologist from Hinduja Hospital, said that while people are mindful of the fact that …
Dar es Salaam — The government plans to include a new generic version of the anti-retroviral drug Dolutegravir (DTG) in the national HIV/Aids treatment protocols. Kenya became the first African country to include the drug in its treatment programmes. The Minister of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Ms …
Kenya has become the first African country to introduce the generic version of the new first-line drug Dolutegravir (DTG) for people living with HIV. Kenya and Unitaid (global health initiative working with partners to end world’s tuberculosis, HIV/Aids and malaria epidemic) announced the rollout of the drug, which has been …
Nigeria introduced efforts towards preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, several years ago, but despite significant progress in reducing new HIV infections among children, the country is not preventing or eliminating HIV infection in children fast enough. Between 2010 and 2015, there was scale up of Prevention of Mother-To-Child transmission of …
WHILE it is a universally accepted norm that a healthy nation is a wealthy one, the scourge of HIV/AIDS on the contrary has impacted negatively on many economies around the globe. Zambia, like many other countries, has taken steps in incorporating the issue of HIV/AIDS in the development agenda owing …
Congo's health minister has declared an end to the country's Ebola outbreak. Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga said in a statement Saturday that Congo has officially gone 42 days with no new recorded cases of the deadly virus. The health minister says the outbreak killed four of the eight people …
Zimbabwe is one of the countries battling to contain fresh HIV infections among youths, where girls in the 15 to 19 year age group account for seven out of every 10 new infections. Condom use in this group has also remained low with institutions of higher learning cited as the …
No fewer than 1.7million women and 380,00 children under age 15, are currently living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria according to the 2015 data by the National AIDS & STIs Control Program (NASCP) of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH). National Coordinator of the National AIDS and STIS Control, of the …
NAIROBI - Kenya is set to be the first African country to introduce better HIV treatment for people living with the disease that causes AIDS. In partnership with the Kenyan government, UNITAID and the World Health Organization have introduced a generic first-line drug for people living with HIV. Speaking at …
Kenya is the first African country to start using a generic version of the latest AIDS drug that can improve and prolong the lives of tens of thousands of people who suffer severe side effects and resistance to other treatments. A generic of Dolutegravir (DTG), first approved in the United …
Only about 6,200 children were born with HIV in Kenya last year, down from a high of 15,000 in 2012. This is a reduction of 58.67 per cent. The new data means the country is on course to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV, which now stands at 6.2 per cent. …
More than 50 000 teachers at public schools are living with HIV and most of these teachers can be found in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Eastern Cape. This has been revealed in a research by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) released today. The study titled: The Health of Educators in …
