HIV/Aids

An experimental HIV vaccine being developed by Johnson and Johnson has been scrapped after early data showed it didn't work.It's the latest blow in the search for a cure for the disease that still kills 2,000 people in the United States…

Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N said on Wednesday that it was pulling the plug on a late-stage global trial of an HIV vaccine after the shot was found ineffective at preventing infections. The trial’s failure marks yet another setback in…

HIV activists are marking World AIDS Day by urging Ottawa to help stop a global backslide in progress on stemming infections and stigma. “It’s clear to us that this government is seized of the issue, but the truth of the matter is, no…

WORLD AIDS DAY 2022: AIDS is one of the most serious diseases which has posed a huge challenge to physicians and medical practitioners over the years. According to United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS,1.7 million children older than 15…

WORLD AIDS DAY 2022: World Aids Day is observed annually on December 1 every year since 1988 as a day dedicated to raising awareness about AIDS disease and its prevention. People who have lost their lives to this deadly disease caused by…

It has been 40 years since the first AIDS cases were reported in the world. Years later, it still is a global threat. Medical practitioners and organisations are committed, along with the government to end AIDS by 2030. World AIDS Day is…

The head of an inquiry into a tainted-blood scandal that killed 2,400 people in Britain urged the government to pay survivors and bereaved partners at least 100,000 pounds ($120,000) each in compensation immediately. The government…

A deal has been reached to allow for distribution of a low-cost generic version of a long-term preventative treatment against HIV in low-income countries where most of the world’s infections occur, Unitaid and the Medicines Patent Pool…

AIDS researchers announced on Wednesday that a fourth person has been “cured” of HIV, but the dangerous procedure for patients also battling cancer may be little comfort for the tens of millions living with the virus worldwide. The…

Botswana has become the second nation in the world, after Eswatini, to reach a landmark UN goal towards eradicating AIDS, researchers said Wednesday, in what health experts hailed as “stellar results”. The country has met the so-called…