This is the Global Health Checkup, five of the week’s most important stories on outbreaks, medicine, science, and survival from around the world. This week: a breakthrough on the price of a new HIV ...

However, external financing is expected to decline given the recent cut in aid, further exposing Ghana’s $590 million funding gap between 2023 and 2030. Stakeholders say meeting the 2030 targets will ...

It’s super effective after about 7 days of consistent use …”  “Have there been people who have used it and still got HIV?”  “Most people who take PrEP correctly don’t get HIV, but a small number might ...

EXPERTS are proposing a ‘one-stop’ care model integrating services for HIV/AIDS and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), with a visible rise in HIV/Aids care quotations. Prof. George Ruhago, a principal ...

KAZEEM BIRIOWO in an exclusive interview with the US CDC Prevention Branch Chief, Dr Tim Efuntoye, highlighted the needed to prioritize preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) and to make HIV ...

Additionally, two HIV medicines - emtricitabine with tenofovir disoproxil and dolutegravir - would be made available on a Practitioner’s Supply Order (PSO) for Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP). This ...

More than 30,000 HIV self-test kits have been distributed nationwide under a free online service, revealing infection rates ...

PurposeMed, which was founded in early 2020, launched Freddie in Canada that July. The service – named after the late rock ...

Two Indian generic drugmakers – Hetero and Dr Reddy’s – will be funded by the Gates Foundation and Unitaid, respectively, to ...

The efforts make drug testing more human-relevant while also reducing the suffering currently inflicted on laboratory animals ...

Gilead has agreed to provide the drug at cost and to share its intellectual property with generic manufacturers who can ...