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New HIV prevention drug Lenacapavir shows promise in clinical trial 2024-07-08 12:09:11
A large clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda found that twice-yearly injections of a new pre-exposure prophylaxis drug completely protected young women from HIV infection. The study tested whether a six-month injection of lenacapavir was more effective at protecting...
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Read More‘London Patient’ World’s Second Person Cured of HIV: Doctors 2019-03-05 10:14:48
An HIV-positive man in London has become the second known adult worldwide to be cleared of the AIDS virus after a received a bone marrow transplant from an HIV resistant doctor, according to his doctors.Nearly three years after receiving bone...
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Read MoreAIDS-Related Deaths Is Slowing Down: UNAIDS Global Report 2019-07-16 12:37:56
The data released by United Nations Tuesday said that deaths related to HIV fell to around 770,000 in 2018, some 33 percent lower than in 2010, but warned that global efforts to do away with the disease were stalling as...
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Read MoreNew Condoms with antioxidant-embedded hydrogel to fight HIV 2015-12-18 10:51:35
Condoms are the effective tools to combat the spread of HIV and AIDS. A brand new condom discovered by the Texas A&M professor doubles up on sexual safety if sexually active people use them. The new condom proposal ditches latex...
Keywords: hydrogel polymer, aids, aids, HIV
Read MoreSwiss man gets 13 years jail for injecting 16 people with HIV-tainted blood... 2013-03-23 07:43:53
A SWISS court has sentenced a self-proclaimed healer to almost 13 years in prison for injecting 16 people with HIV-tainted blood and infecting them with the virus. On Friday, a Swiss court sentenced a self-proclaimed healer to almost 13 years...
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Read MoreIn World First, HIV-Positive Woman Donates Kidney to HIV-Positive Recipient 2019-03-29 06:34:25
An Atlanta woman became the first living HIV-positive kidney donor in the world on Monday when surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore transferred her organ to a recipient who is also HIV-positive, according to a statement from the medical...
Keywords: HIV positive, hiv positive heart transplant, undetectable hiv blood donation, HIV patient donates kidney
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