June 27 is National HIV Testing Day, and an expert suggests it’s a good time to think about testing, especially for youth. And, a recent study suggested that nurses have a role in reaching youth.
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Despite many public health interventions in the region, Haiti remains vulnerable to stigmatisation against people infected with HIV, particularly sexual minorities.
Secrecy around the HIV-positive status of young children in school is denying them the care and support they need for a good start.
Researchers around the world are working hard to find a vaccine that is safe and effective.
Most of the reasons people don’t take their medication aren’t related to the antiretrovirals themselves, but rather social and systemic issues.
There’s more to antibiotics than meets the eye.
Until then we need to get effective, accessible treatment for all who need it, while deploying the many prevention tools at our disposal.
TB outside the lungs accounted for 14% of TB cases recorded globally in 2017.
Community-based HIV programmes helps improve access to health care.
Headlines around the world declared that a second person was cured of their HIV. But while the results are encouraging, we’re a long way from a cure.
The White House will expand a law that cuts funding to abortion providers abroad. When the Bush-era ‘global gag rule’ was last in effect, abortion rates tripled in Latin America and doubled in Africa.
In the film, the real tensions of gay life in the 1980s – from government apathy towards the AIDS crisis, to rampant anti-gay prejudice – don’t get their due.
The global cancer burden especially in developing countries is exacerbated by the high cost of treatment.
Female-centred health services are good, but they may detract from gender equality and men’s health.
STI prevention was largely driven by HIV prevention. With changes in HIV prevention initiatives that don’t really take into account other STIs, there’s need to refocus STI prevention.
At the turn of the century, the greatest threats were posed by infectious diseases today, the biggest threats are posed by lifestyle diseases.
Gene sequences can be manipulated to prevent certain diseases and improve public health.
Eradicating a virus from the community requires everyone to have access to prevention, as is the case with tuberculosis. So why not HIV?
Data suggest that people are living many years in poor health in Africa.
The Trump administration has banned NIH researchers from using fetal tissue. The tissue is an essential tool for scientists investigating diseases ranging from Alzheimer’s to Zika virus infections.
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Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital and Consultant Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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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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Research Professor, Perinatal HIV Research Unit and President, South African Medical Research Council
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