Stigmabase | HIV

HIV in Lebanon: What you need to know - By the end of November 2018, the total number of people living with HIV /AIDS in Lebanon was estimated to be 2366 by the National AIDS ...

UNAIDS reports mixed progress towards reaching the 2020 target of reducing TB deaths among ... - World Health Organization estimates show that, globally, TB deaths among people living with HIV have fallen by 42% since 2010, from 520 000 down ...

Education and HIV incidence among girls in Africa – a strong association but still no evidence of ... - Education is a critical component of young women's health and empowerment programmes – but we need to be careful not to assume an immediate ...

How to Handle Potentially False-Positive HIV Test Results During Pregnancy - Pregnant women frequently undergo successive rapid-result HIV testing to determine status, but there currently aren't any clear guidelines for how ...

Maternal antibody transfer in HIV -1 infected women and impact on infant health - Children born to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 ( HIV -1) infected women are more vulnerable to infections and are more likely to die even when ...

HIV Remains Persistent Problem In Missouri — Especially In Rural Areas - The number of new HIV cases in Missouri is on the rise — and a disproportionately large number are in rural counties. The Centers for Disease ...

An Australian Man Who Was Using PrEP 'On Demand' Has Contracted HIV - For years now, PrEP has been a highly effective tool in the HIV prevention toolbox, not just for gay men but for all at-risk groups. The pill, also referred ...

Clinical trial for sickle cell using HIV to cure the disease - We take the HIV envelope and we take out the letter that actually encodes for the bad stuff, the virus, but we leave the envelope that allows it to get ...