HIV

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.

10 drugs to fight HIV, TB, malaria to be vulnerable to climate change

Published on: November 28, 2023
16:56

United Nations, Nov 28 (Prensa Latina) UNITAD, an international financing mechanism for treating several diseases, warned on Tuesday that 10 products to combat HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria would be vulnerable to climate change.

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.

Number of people living with HIV decreases in South Africa – Study

Published on: November 27, 2023
16:00

A new survey has found that the percentage of people living with the HIV virus in South Africa has decreased from 14% in 2017 to 12.7% in 2022.

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.

Paraguayan HIV patients increase by 41 percent in five years

Published on: August 28, 2023
10:17

Asuncion, Aug 28 (Prensa Latina) The newspaper ABC Color reported today that the number of people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Paraguay has increased by 41 percent in the last five years.

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).

Cambodia concerned about increased HIV infections

Published on: June 26, 2023
15:56

Phnom Penh, Jun 26 (Prensa Latina) The increased HIV/AIDS infection toll in Cambodia is nowadays a deep concern for local authorities.

Specialists call for stepped-up control on injecting drug users

Published on: March 31, 2023
17:37

London, Mar 31 (Prensa Latina) Experts on Friday called to take more control on injecting drug users for a more effective HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) monitoring.

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.

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