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The twice-yearly shot lenacapavir, sold under the name Yeztugo, reportedly nearly eliminated new HIV infections in studies of ...

The approval could slow new infections and move the world closer to eliminating HIV. But huge obstacles remain.

Clinical trials have shown that six-monthly injections of lenacapavir are almost 100 percent protective against becoming ...

The FDA announced today that they've approved a twice-yearly injection for preventing HIV infection in adults and kids. News ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. has approved the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV, maker Gilead Sciences announced Wednesday. It's the first step in an anticipated global rollout that could protect ...

Do you think children today will have a better, worse, or roughly the same life to you?” was a question posed by the Gallup Organisation in 2022 in 64 countries. Globally, only 44% of the adult ...

“However, the proportion of children living with HIV who have been diagnosed has stabilised at around 85-86% in recent years. “Also, levels of ART coverage in children have stabilised at relatively ...

The project would also identify and refer orphaned children for testing in cases where they did not know their status (since orphaned children are more likely to have HIV, it makes sense to focus on ...

Supported by USAID, the Ethiopian clinic provides lifesaving medicine for HIV-positive kids and teens to suppress the virus. First came the 90-day freeze — and now an immediate termination of ...

Two-year-old Evans was brought to the Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya a year ago, suffering from HIV and tuberculosis. With no family to care for him, Evans was referred to the ...

As if that is not bad enough, it is estimated that 160,000 children aged 0-14 are living with HIV in the country, and there is an alarming figure of 15,000 AIDS-related deaths annually.