South Africa’s data rollout of its pre-exposure prophylaxis shows that there is a relatively slow, but increasing, uptake. However, more needs to be done to target young women.
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World AIDS Day is an opportunity to discuss how current medical inadmissibility rules for newcomers are out of touch with Canadian values and need to be reformed.
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Three new HIV vaccine concepts which rely on high-tech designer proteins are being trialled to see if they can stop the virus.
Understanding where there are high numbers of new HIV infections is important to establishing whether interventions are working or not.
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To get an effective vaccine for HIV/AIDS, scientists need to understand exactly how the virus works and immune system responds to it. African scientists have come one step closer.
Stigma stops people from getting tested for HIV, and staying on their treatment. Unless it’s addressed, the AIDS epidemic will persist.
Principales colaboradores
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Medical Scientist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases; Research Associate at CAPRISA; Research Professor in the School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Professor and DST/NRF SARChI Chair of Virus-Host Dynamics, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, CAPRISA Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor and Director: Research at the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute I, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of Implementation Science, Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Associate professor, University of Toronto
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Research Fellow, Wits School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy at the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health , Vanderbilt University
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Epidemiologist and Public Health Specialist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Research Associate/Post Doctoral Researcher and Deputy Laboratory Director at the Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute, Harvard University
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Programme Director for the Sub-Saharan African Network for TB/HIV Research Excellence (SANTHE), University of KwaZulu-Natal
