Daily Archives: January 16, 2010

WHO tool to integrate gender into AIDS programmes 0

Half of all people living with HIV globally are now women and this figure rises to over 60 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa, where young women aged 15-24 can be several times more likely to be HIV-positive than their male counterparts. In order to offer women greater protection against the virus, the World Health Organization [...]

U.S. grounds archaic policy on HIV-positive travellers 1

Amid the outrage over new airport security measures, many Canadians might have missed one good nugget when it comes to international travel: e lifting of U.S. travel restrictions that had stopped HIV-positive foreigners from entering the country for more than 20 years.home hiv test, hiv self test, home hiv kit
It sounds archaic and, one might [...]

New Study Raises Concerns About HIV-Drug Resistance 0

Last January a team of scientists at the World Health Organization (WHO) published a study in the British medical journal the Lancet making the audacious claim that the tools already exist to end the AIDS epidemic. Doctors have long noted that antiretrovirals — the drugs commonly used to treat HIV — are so successful at suppressing [...]