A patient with leukaemia in the United States has become the first woman and the third person till date to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant, the New York Times had reported on Tuesday. Researchers who announced the win at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunisitic Infections, disclosed that the case […]
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The World Health Organisation (WHO), says “Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission (PMTCT)” initiative has helped to protect 94.9 per cent infants exposed to HIV by their mothers in Nigeria. The organisation said this in a statement signed by the WHO Nigeria Officer-in-Charge (OiC), Dr Clement Peter, in Abuja on Wednesday. He said that the initiative was […]
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Vice President Yemi on Thursday in Abuja said the Federal Government would increase the number of people on anti-retroviral treatment as part of commitment to ending the HIV epidemic by 2030. Osinbajo said this while delivering speech at the commemoration of event in Abuja as part of activities to mark the 2018 World AIDS Day […]
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A recent study suggests that HIV drugs might successfully treat Alzheimer’s disease, which affects in the US alone, an estimated 5.7million people. According to the research, published by Medical News Today, an HIV enzyme plays a crucial role in driving Alzheimer’s-related brain pathology by altering the APP gene. The findings warrant “immediate clinical evaluation of […]
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The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) says the Nigerian HIV/AIDS Trust Fund will be functional by March 2019. The Director-General of NACA, Dr Sani Aliyu, announced this at the 2018 Civil Society Organisations Accountability Forum. The forum was themed: “Domestic Resource Mobilisation: Increasing Public and Private Sector Investment”, on Tuesday in Abuja. […]
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The United States says it has committed more than $5.1 billion to the fight against HIV/AIDS in Nigeria through its President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The U.S. Charge d’ Affaires, David Young, said this on Thursday in Abuja at the opening of a photo exhibition to commemorate PEPFAR’s 15th Anniversary in Nigeria. “Since […]
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An HIV-positive man who might have consciously passed on the deadly virus to more than 200 sexual partners has been arrested in Italy. A spokesman for police in Ancona, a city on Italy’s eastern Adriatic coast, told dpa on Thursday that 35-year-old Claudio Pinti had been arrested two days earlier. Despite having been diagnosed “for […]
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The preliminary human trial of an experimental vaccine regiment is anticipated to begin in the second half of 2019, according to a study published on Monday in the journal Nature medicine. The “broadly neutralising’’ vaccine regiment based on the structure of a vulnerable site on HIV was found to have elicited antibodies in mice, guinea […]
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The Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS has appointed Hajiya Aisha Buhari, as UNAIDS Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Promotion of Treatment for Children living with HIV in Nigeria. Communications and Global Outreach Officer, UNAIDS Nigeria, Charles-Martin Jjuuko, made this known in a statement issued on Saturday in […]
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Researchers said they have discovered an HIV antibody that can suppress the virus for nearly six months without additional treatment. The new study involved about half of a group of monkeys, infused with a broadly neutralising antibody to HIV combined with an immune stimulatory compound. The findings, released at the 25th Conference on Retroviruses and […]
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