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  1. Kevin Lancaster

    HIV-prevention drug on demand, using an app

    HIV-prevention drug on demand, using an app US company Nurx has started delivering anti-HIV medication to individuals through its app, removing the need to visit a doctor.
  3. C

    Nanny is HIV+

    We have just hired a new nanny (since 1 Sep 2014) to look after our 3 month old baby full time in our house. She got sick and landed in hospital last Sunday (Still there) and yesterday we found out she is HIV+ and has Spinal cord TB. She is very ill and we don't know how advanced she is or how...
  4. mercurial

    “Surprising” Oral Vaccine Stops HIV In Monkeys

    Scientists have "unexpectedly" developed an oral vaccine that prevents the monkey equivalent of HIV
  5. jes

    Free HIV vaccine gets hackathon, South Africa help

    Free HIV vaccine gets hackathon, South Africa help A non-profit project to develop a vaccine for HIV has called for the help of geeks around the world, with clinical trials planned in SA later
    • jes
    • Thread
    • aids centre for the aids programme of research in south africa (caprisa) geekli.st headline hiv immunity project microsoft naveen jain salim abdool karim until there's a cure
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    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  6. NeonNinja

    Top 100 AIDS countries

    1 South Africa 5,600,000(53 million), 10.5% 2 Nigeria 3,300,000 (169 million), 2.4% 3 India 2,400,000 (1.2 billion), 2% 4 Kenya 1,500,000 (44 million), 3.4% 5 Mozambique 1,400,000 (25.5 million), 5.5% 6 Tanzania...
  7. LazyLion

    Simple Single ARV Tablet Rolled Out

    A simplified antiretroviral medication was introduced in Ga-Rankuwa, north west of Pretoria, on Monday. It would see people with HIV taking one tablet a day instead of three, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said. "We believe that the roll-out of the fixed-dose combination (FDC) will...
  8. LazyLion

    Ex Prisoner Sues Ministry

    An ex-prisoner, who said he contracted HIV after being gang-raped on his first night in jail, is suing the correctional services ministry for R1.7 million, the Cape Times reported on Friday. The 41-year-old from the Western Cape alleged that he was "deliberately" placed in a cell with known...
  9. LazyLion

    SAPA Press Release: Human Rights Activists demand US end exploitation of Africans

    ISSUED BY: PRNEWSWIRE ATTENTION: NEWS EDITORS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DEMAND CLINTON FOUNDATION END EXPLOITATION OF AFRICANS BROOKLYN, New York, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- During tonight's Clinton Foundation Millennium Network event featuring a dialogue with...
  10. L

    DA Wants H.I.V Testing Without Consent

    http://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/da-s-new-hiv-clanger-1.1198601 One gaff after another. They are going for a hat trick.:wtf:
  11. A

    Get tested for HIV and you could win a car

    Okay maybe not you exactly... Innovative Medicines of South Africa (IMSA) and the Department of Health are running the 'first things first' campaign for first year students at 16 varsities. The idea is to get first years to pass their first 'test' at varsity. Everyone can test but first...
  12. Lycanthrope

    'It felt like a death sentence'

    Source: IOL News Firstly, my sympathy to the woman for all she's gone through and my congratulations for winning her lawsuit against the KZN Health Department. How paramedics (emergency personnel) can be so careless is beyond me... Secondly, what kind of husband abandons his wife just...
  13. D

    Vaccine cuts Aids infection risk by 31%

    first time ever there is evidence that HIV vaccine has preventative efficacy
  14. S

    Plan for compulsory HIV test - WC Health MEC

    What do you think of that?
  15. D

    S. Africa Embraces Study Critical of Health Policy

    N.Y Times
  16. mercurial

    New HIV Strain Discovered in Woman From Cameroon

    More...
  17. S

    HIV vaccine turns muscle into antibody factories

    How do you deal with a virus which attacks the immune system that is trying to fight it off? It's a question HIV researchers have been trying to solve for years, and now they may have come up with a solution: bypass the immune system altogether...
  18. LazyLion

    Scientists film HIV spreading for the first time!

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5058131/Scientists-film-HIV-spreading-for-first-time.html video is in the link.
  19. DJ...

    How was HIV created?

    Reading the latest HIV threads has got me questioning how HIV came about in the first place. Was it a virus that has always been around and we only developed the necessary skills and technology to detect it recently? How does a virus just create itself - what are a virus' beginnings? Is it...
  20. mercurial

    HIV Is Evolving To Evade Human Immune Responses

    Full article
  21. mercurial

    Mom, 4 kids die over AIDS rumour

    Full story
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