Topic: Sub-Saharan Africa
A $1.6-billion (1.2-billion-euro) cut in funding for AIDS treatment could affect millions of people as donors failed to meet commitments to the Global Fund, campaigners said Monday.The Global Fund last week said it would not bankroll new AIDS treatment projects until 2014 ...
Access to HIV treatment has improved greatly in Sub-Saharan Africa, the region which has long been worst hit by the AIDS epidemic, leading to a steady drop in deaths, the United Nations said Monday."The most dramatic increases in anti-retroviral therapy coverage have ...
Wealthy nations boosted funding for health programs in poor countries more than fourfold between 1990 and 2010, thanks largely to greater awareness of the need to fight HIV/AIDS, a report released Tuesday said.Research by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Efforts to treat everyone in Africa infected with the AIDS virus are virtually futile, and public health experts should instead focus on preventing new cases, a committee of experts reported on Monday.Currently 22.5 million people in Africa have HIV, ...
Expanded access to AIDS treatment in sub-Saharan Africa has dramatically cut deaths from the disease, but the region remains the worst affected in the world, a UN report said Tuesday.Sub-Saharan Africa saw an estimated 320,000 fewer people die of HIV-related causes in ...
Beginning in April 2009, the world witnessed the first influenza pandemic in more than four decades-influenza A H1N1. By year's end 12,220 deaths had been reported worldwide, and the World Health Organization (WHO) had declared the pandemic on the decline. As a ...
Although there is a serious situation concerning the lives of many people that reside in Africa , there are some misconceptions with regard to the numbers of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ), the number of AIDS deaths ...
Researchers have devised new ways to gauge the short-term survival of HIV patients in sub-Saharan Africa during their first year of antiretroviral drug therapy.. While prognostic tools like these are available for patients in richer countries, no methods to predict prognosis for ...
A breakthrough test of a vaginal gel to protect women against HIV unleashed a wave of optimism at the world AIDS conference on Tuesday after two days of rows over funding.Hearty applause broke out in the main hall of the Vienna congress ...
A paper published July 19 in Sciencexpress indicates that a new vaginal gel could reduce a woman's risk for HIV infection by half when used regularly. The trial's success is welcome news in sub-Saharan Africa, where the number of women living with ...
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