AIDS

SOUTH AFRICA - Nobel Laureate Francoise Barre-Sinoussi‚ who co-discovered the virus that causes Aids‚ believes it is possible that one day people will live with HIV‚ without taking medicine and yet remain healthy and un-infectious.
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UNITED KINGDOM - A daily pill can reduce the risk of getting HIV by almost 90 per cent, according to “game-changing” research that has prompted calls for the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK to make the drug available to gay men.
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HIV/Aids related deaths in Zimbabwe dropped by more than 20,000 this year compared to last year, according to figures released by the National Aids Council (NAC).
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In many countries, the intentional infection of a person with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is considered to be a crime.
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The United States Embassy, with support from the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), will on December 2 commemorate the 13th annual Auxillia Chimusoro Awards and the 10th anniversary of PEPFAR by recognizing…
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Admire Jinga used his base in Belfast to set up a company which advertised and distributed devices overseas, particularly to parts of his native Zimbabwe ravaged by the disease.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — A Zimbabwean human rights activist says he wants the nation’s highest court to order prison authorities to ensure suspects in jail can receive their life-prolonging HIV/AIDS medications.
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According to The Telegraph newspaper, scientists are conducting a clinical trial to test a “novel strategy” in which the HIV virus is "reactivated" from its hiding place within human DNA and potentially destroyed permanently by the immune…
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HARARE - The United States and Zimbabwe are investing in and focusing on youth to continue the fight against HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination and have provided resources to a youth-focused organization to expand its outreach.
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“My son Shakespeare, do not go around shaking your spear everywhere,” exclaimed Albert Nyathi as he recited his poem My Son, at the unveiling of a World AIDS Day theme song initiated by a youth singing sensation Theo Phoenyll.
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