Tag: HIV
Malaria, HIV and TBC: New vaccines wanted
According to the WHO, vaccination is the most cost-effective way of preventing disease. It currently prevents two to three million deaths a year. The oldest and best vaccines protect against…
GSK: green light for HIV prophylaxis from ViiV in the US
(CercleFinance.com) – ViiV Healthcare, the HIV treatment subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline, announced on Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had authorized the marketing of Apretude, its HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis…
in South Africa, the hunt for variants to the challenge of the fight against HIV
Paramedics from Tshwane (South Africa) move a man with Covid-19 to an isolation room in January 2021. PHILL MAGAKOE / AFP As South Africa has entered a fourth wave that…
“I’m HIV positive – and that does it to my life”
Julia * is HIV positive. Here she describes how she is discriminated against, how she hides – and how she still finds love. My name is Julia. Not.I am 25…
The Covid-19 pandemic reduced the number of tests and new HIV diagnoses in France in 2020
World AIDS Day takes place on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. MEHDI FEDOUACH / AFP In 2020, the number of discoveries of HIV seropositivity and bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) was…
Lots of chlamydia, little HIV, but gonorrhea on the rise: the number of sexually transmitted diseases in Switzerland is stable
The number of sexually transmitted infections remained stable or decreased in 2020. In Switzerland there are 7,000 chlamydia infections and 300 new HIV cases every year. Tripper tends to be…
Why is there no vaccine against HIV when a year was enough to develop several against Covid-19?
3D artist image of HIV. SPECTRAL / WESTEND61 / PHOTONONSTOP Forty years after the first AIDS alert on June 5, 1981, there is still no vaccine against AIDS. There is…
what has changed for people with HIV
“It was important, it was our first apartment purchase,” says Cédric, a 42-year-old flight attendant living with HIV. STEFANIE GREWEL / CULTURA / PHOTONONSTOP Cédric does not hide it: he…
“The crisis due to Covid-19 can no longer be an excuse to watch HIV regain its strength”
Tribune. The health crisis that we have been going through for a year now has had an undeniable impact on the management of the HIV / AIDS epidemic. Screenings have…
“The health crisis has lowered HIV testing. The impact is huge.”
With the coronavirus, the fight against AIDS is weakening while the contaminations do not stop, far from it. Screening, which is essential, has also fallen sharply. As a side effect…
Nikita Bellucci and 4 other porn actors talk about HIV / AIDS
What if we talked about HIV and AIDS without taboos? Five pornographic actors have decided to challenge prejudices in a successful humorous short film. "AIDS and HIV are not the…
Unraveling the true from the false when talking about HIV / AIDS
The fight against HIV / AIDS is not won, far from it. Everyone can be affected, yet still too few people know the virus, in particular its modes of transmission.…