Antiretroviral therapy coverage for HIV in low- & middle-income countries to grow 25% by 2025, says WHO

Presently, only half the children living with HIV receive ART; may fall short of UNAIDS treatment coverage target for 2025

World AIDS Day: Communities can lead way to ending public health threat, says UNAIDS

Suggests integrating, elevating and engaging communities at all stages of HIV-related decision-making

Six ways to improve HIV prevention pill uptake among young women in Zimbabwe

15-19-year-old girls in sub-Saharan Africa highly vulnerable to new infections

HIV-associated tuberculosis on the rise: India TB Report

Pediatric and drug-resistant TB major concerns for India

Hopes dashed as last HIV vaccine trial in Africa for this decade ends in failure

Trial ‘PrEPVacc’ was testing two different vaccine regimens on about 1,500 volunteers in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa

Head of UNAIDS unpacks the knock-on effects of COVID-19. And what needs to be done

AIDS remains a crisis and COVID-19 is making it worse, says Winnie Byanyima

Look back at the decade: Generic drugs

Fifteen years after it rose and went limp, the biotech sector saw a bull run of sorts

AMR causes more deaths than malaria and HIV/AIDS combined. What Africa is doing to fight this silent epidemic

In many African countries, poverty and inequality propel the likelihood of antimicrobial resistance  

Integrate mpox with HIV, STI prevention & control programmes: WHO

New HIV guidelines on viral suppression unveiled at international AIDS conference

Ethics before profits: What it will take to have global access to COVID-19 vaccine

Experts worry that any COVID-19 vaccine is likely to have a high price tag and, as a result, be unequally distributed 

Developed, urbanised districts have high HIV prevalence: Study

The research finds that there’s high prevalence of HIV in 63 districts in south and north-east regions of the country

HIV positive children’s treatment in Africa not on par with adults: UN Report

Only six African countries provided antiretroviral therapy to children living with HIV in 2020, a report by UNAIDS has said

HIV: 1.35 million new cases can be prevented in South Africa till 2030 with higher financing

Investing in HIV response will also increase educational outcomes, reduce gender inequality & boost economic growth

HIV+ patients protest months-long drug shortage outside NACO office

The patients have demanded fixing irregular supply of everyday antiretroviral therapy medication   

India’s HIV-affected community ends protest over alleged shortage of drugs

Control office to be set up to work on forecasting, availability, supply chain, dispensing antiretroviral drugs  

Communities can make – or break – strategies to curb HIV

They need greater recognition as equal partners in the fight against HIV as well as resources to continue doing the critically important work …

Cipla shows the way, again

The pioneer of inexpensive AIDS drugs made a paediatric medicine that will save thousands of children

Global AIDS fight ‘in danger’ after setbacks due to COVID-19

Number of new infections dropped by only 3.6 % between 2020 and 2021, the smallest annual decline since 2016

Ensuring home for those abandoned with HIV: Meet Noori Amma

A transgender woman diagnosed with HIV in 1987 has run a home for children living with the disease for nearly two decades now

Telemedicine useful for HIV treatment: Study

Anti-retroviral therapy through telemedicine is better than conventional method in terms of average cost, treatment compliance, follow up visit …

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Father of South Africa’s ‘rainbow nation’

Archbishop Tutu didn’t stop his fight for human rights once apartheid came to a formal end in 1994. He continued to speak critically …

No evidence to show CRISPR babies will die early: Scientists

The erroneous conclusion, made earlier, was caused by technical errors in how the mutation was identified in a population-health database

HIV-related stigma, discrimination persists in work world, reveals global survey

Less than half of people surveyed in India said people living with HIV should be allowed to work directly with people who do not have HIV

How COVID-19 restrictions prevent Nairobi’s sex workers from accessing vital healthcare

Unfortunately, COVID-19 has made it harder than usual for sex workers all over Africa to access healthcare

Gene variant in people of African origin helps control HIV, says study

Between 4% and 13% of people of African origin could be carrying a particular variant that decreases the viral load