aids

One million Brazilian people lived with HIV in 2022 – Study

Published on: November 30, 2023
18:45

Brasilia, Nov 30 (Prensa Latina) At least one million people were living with HIV in Brazil in 2022, where 350,000 out of them were women and 650,000 were men, according to Brazil´s Health Ministry.

PAHO praises role of communities to fight off HIV/AIDS

Published on: November 30, 2023
17:55

Washington, Nov 30 (Prensa Latina) Health agencies on Thursday heaped praise on the key role by communities and civil society in Latin America and the Caribbean in the fight against HIV-AIDS testing, prevention and treatment services.

Angola to host Southern African Health Ministers Meeting

Published on: November 28, 2023
15:43

Luanda, Nov 28 (Prensa Latina) Ministers of Health and those responsible for the fight against HIV and AIDS of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are holding their joint meeting today in Angola.

Over 300K people living with HIV/AIDS in Angola

Published on: September 29, 2023
17:14

Luanda, Sep 29 (Prensa Latina) About 350,000 Angolan people are HIV/AIDS carriers, according to the Angolan Network of AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Service Organizations (ANASO) President António Coelho.

HIV/AIDS infections surge in Chile

Published on: August 1, 2023
14:56

Santiago de Chile, Aug 1 (Prensa Latina) As many as 5,401 HIV/AIDS cases were reported in Chile in 2023, a figure accounting for a 7% surge over the previous year, according to the Public Health Institute (ISP).

India reduces HIV-AIDS infection rate by 46 percent

Published on: December 2, 2022
07:05

New Delhi, Dec 2 (Prensa Latina) India reduced the annual rate of HIV infection by 46 percent between 2010 and 2021, compared to the world average of 32 percent, the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) revealed.

UNICEF warns of rising HIV/AIDS death toll in children aged under 19

Published on: November 28, 2022
16:27

United Nations, Nov 28 (Prensa Latina) Some 110,000 children aged under 19 have passed away of AIDS in 2021, and the recent infection toll has reached 2.7 million children.

UK announces another aid to Global Fund to help fight diseases

Published on: November 14, 2022
11:03

London, Nov 14 (Prensa Latina) The United Kingdom will give another one billion pounds sterling (more than 1.1 billion dollars) to the Global Fund to help fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria globally, the British Foreign Office announced on Monday.

Int’l Space station experiment could help fight AIDS

Published on: June 24, 2022
10:11

Moscow, Jun 24 (Prensa Latina) Russia's Space Agency, Roscosmos, on Friday reported that the results of the Kristallizator (Crystallizer) experiment, which is being carried out on the International Space Station (ISS), could help create new drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis and AIDS.

UN urges global solidarity to contain AIDS, COVID-19

Published on: December 1, 2021
16:15

United Nations, Dec 1 (Prensa Latina) UN general Assembly (UNGA) President Abdulla Shahid on Wednesday called for greater international solidarity to end Covid-19 and the scourge of HIV/AIDS.

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