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Zackie Achmat, once at the center of South Africa’s push for lifesaving H.I.V. treatment, has come out of retirement as U.S.
The World Health Organization is now recommending that countries include an HIV drug newly approved for prevention, ...
Years of American-led investment into AIDS programs has reduced the number of people killed by the disease to the lowest ...
A new report by the U.N. AIDS agency says the sudden withdrawal of U.S. funding has caused a “systemic shock” to the global ...
The U.N. warns that over 4 million could die by 2029 if U.S. funding for global HIV/AIDS programs is not replaced, ...
But in the last six months, the sudden withdrawal of U.S. money has caused a “systemic shock,” U.N. officials warned, adding ...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a germ that causes a lifelong infection that slowly weakens the immune system. Though the infection is lifelong, medicines can keep the virus in check and ...
HIV is a virus that attacks a person's immune system, making them vulnerable to disease. It is spread most commonly through unprotected sex or sharing needles. AIDS is the final stage of HIV.
Duke University says it’s “an enormous setback” for creating a vaccine to fight the cause of AIDS. The Trump administration argued it was duplicative.
Of 49 countries surveyed in a recent analysis, 15 have historically relied on the the U.S. for most of the funding for their HIV/AIDS responses. That funding is largely gone now.