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HIV, also known as Human Immunodeficiency syndrome is a condition in which the victim suffers serious damage to their immune system. This damage usually wears down the body’s immune system, and opens it up to all sorts of diseases and sicknesses. HIV can be fatal if unnoticed or treated...

HIV is a sneaky virus. It can hide in the immune cells of people taking daily antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs, waiting until they stop the therapy to come back with a vengeance. This forces them to continue ART — and continue dealing with its many side effects — for their entire lives. But...

Many young African women with HIV unaware they are infected Study across seven sub-Saharan countries shows less than half of young women carrying the virus were aware they had the disease HIV blood sample testing tabs at the Bwindi Community Hospital in western Uganda. Photograph: Andrew...

A young lady simply identified as Onyekachi has got herself trending on twitter following her controversial post earlier today. According to the pretty lady, condoms are for weak men. She took to her twitter account to write; Condoms are for weak ass men, Real men f*ck quickly and pull …...

6 Facts About HIV/AIDS That Might Totally Shock You Women’s Health Iran wakes up to HIV/AIDS epidemic among expectant mothers Al-Monitor Harvey man booked with intentional AIDS exposure NOLA.com New tool to track HIV infection rates Independent Full coverage via HIV – Google News...

Spanish researchers have announced that a new vaccine they are developing have cured 5 patients of the HIV/AIDS disease 7 months after treatment started. According to a study published in New Scientist, the treatment allowed the patients to stop taking regular antiretroviral (ARV) drugs – the...

Five Universities in the UK have joined efforts together to create a treatment which is very promising to cure the HIV/AIDS disease. A 44-year-old, one of 50 people currently trialling the treatment which targets the disease even in its dormant state, is very close to being the first person...

Nigeria has scored a major success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has announced. In a statement issued on Thursday, NACA said Nigeria has moved from a high prevalence rate of over 5.8 % in the year 2001 to less than 3% prevalence rate in 2014...

Here are fresh information about the progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the world, according to the United Nations. HIV/AIDS Fact Sheet 2016 In 2015, there were 36.7 million [34.0 million–39.8 million] people living with HIV. New HIV infections have fallen by 6% since 2010...

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A priest, a junior football coach and an HIV-positive man were among 11 people arrested in northern Italy on charges of paying for sex with minors, police said Thursday. The arrests in the Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions follow a six-month investigation led by detectives in Brescia into a...

Following a new research, scientists have stated that giving daily HIV drugs to healthy gay men has huge potential to help reverse the epidemic. They say the medication prevents new infections by killing the virus before it has a chance to take hold in the body, BBC reports. Experts said the...

Hollywood star Charlie Sheen has confirmed he is living with HIV in a US television interview today. "I am here to admit that I am HIV positive," he said. It bring to an end days of intense media speculation. The former star of sitcom Two And A Half Men is appearing on NBC's Today show. "I...

On Tuesday, Charlie Sheen will sit down with Matt Lauer on NBC's Today to discuss a "revealing personal announcement." Opinion suggests that this announcement will be that the actor is HIV positive. The interview is scheduled to beat the November 18 release of the National Enquirer's "bombshell...

Rivers state has topped the new prevalence chart of HIV/AIDS states in Nigeria according to the `Guinness World Record on HIV Test’. NAN reported that the rating came as a result of test carried out on persons living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria during the the launch of the `Guinness World Record...

Rock star Elton John believes that the fast spread of HIV/AIDS across Africa is simply because people are afraid to come out publicly to declare they are gay. African countries have vehemently kicked against recognising gayism, with some countries even placing up to 14-year jail sentence on...