The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the world’s first injectable medication to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The injectable drug, Apretude, is given first as two…

A new World Health Organisation report has confirmed that HIV infection is a significant independent risk factor for both severe and critical COVID-19 presentation at hospital admission and in-hospital mortality. WHO, in a statement on…

The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office for HIV and TB Control, in partnership with the Adamawa State government has provided HIV-vulnerable families with household equipment to improve their living standard.…

A new vaccine against HIV has shown promise in Phase 1 trials, leading to the production of efficient antibodies in 97 percent of participants. This is based on a report from the IAVI and Scripps Research published online in European…

Millions of Americans were struggling without electricity Wednesday as bitter cold from a deadly winter storm system held its grip across huge swathes of the United States, even pushing as far south as Mexico. The Arctic weather system —…

The Global Fund, an international financing and partnership to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria, says it has signed a record-breaking 8.54 billion US dollars grants for lifesaving programmes to combat the three diseases in 2020.…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 73 countries have warned that they are at risk of stock-outs of Antiretroviral (ARV) medicines as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO in a statement posted on its website said countries should…

A second patient has been cured of HIV after undergoing stem cell transplant treatment, doctors said Tuesday, after finding no trace of infection 30 months after he stopped traditional treatment. The so-called "London Patient", a…

The Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Munta Abimbola, on Thursday, freed some inmates who had HIV, ulcer and pelvic dislocation at the Abolongo Custodian Centre in Oyo town. The inmates were freed during a jail release exercise by the…

Lagos government has raised a red flag on about 60,000 people who tested positive to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Lagos but have absconded from treatment, raising fear of the spread of the virus in the state. The victims were…