AdminJul 7, 20173 min readHealth: Report Calls For Increased Efforts On TB; WHO Warns About Antibiotic-Resistant Sexually TranTuberculosis is still a deadly killer, and a new report by two humanitarian organisations raises alarm on poor progress on the disease...
AdminJul 7, 20171 min readHIV, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis C: EP proposals for tackling communicable diseasesMEPs urged the Commission on Wednesday to address the increase in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and viral hepatitis cases in the EU and to...
AdminJul 6, 20172 min readDeputy UN chief highlights stronger AU-UN partnership to benefit Africa's youthDeputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed today called for strengthening the relationship between the African Union (AU) and the United...
AdminJul 6, 20173 min readNew Monitor shows how culture and creativity help cities to thriveToday, the European Commission released the first ever edition of the ‘Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor' This new tool provides...
AdminJul 4, 20171 min readIt Starts With MeIt Starts With Me is a national campaign which brings together real people and their stories to stop HIV.
AdminJun 27, 20173 min readA new antibiotic for drug-resistant tuberculosisTUBERCULOSIS has plagued humanity for thousands of years. The discovery in the 19th century of its cause, a bacterium (pictured above)...
AdminJun 27, 20172 min readEMA advisors back eight medicines for approvalEight medicines have been backed for approval by the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use,...
AdminJun 21, 20173 min readResearchers say rule out depression, anxiety, unemployment and other stresses before blaming cognitiMichael Carter Published: 19 June 2017 http://www.aidsmap.com/ One in five people living with HIV in a European study reported a decline...
AdminJun 10, 20172 min readHigh Take-Two Cure Rates With Gilead’s New Triple-Drug Hep C RegimenThe fixed-dose combination tablet sofosbuvir/velpatasvir/voxilaprevir provides a good alternative to those who have failed treatment....
AdminJun 10, 20173 min readFDA APPROVES GENERIC TRUVADA; GILEAD INSISTS A GENERIC VERSION ‘WILL NOT BE IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE’In a move that has taken HIV advocates by surprise and stewed considerable confusion, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has...
AdminJun 6, 20171 min readEACS FREE ONLINE COURSE ON PREPThe European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) will launch a new free online course on Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) on 12 June 2017. The...
AdminJun 4, 20171 min readHepatitis C Manipulates Liver Cells to Evade an Immune ResponseThe virus kick-starts a process that blunts the body’s interferon-based immune response. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) helps ensure its...
AdminJun 1, 20172 min readTuberculosis bacterium may undermine immune regulation to drive disease progressionSuppression of regulatory pathways may increase production of a protein that destroys lung tissue The bacterium that causes tuberculosis...
