The number of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections declined by about 6 percent last year from the previous year, according to a report. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said Wednesday that it has published the “Yearbook of HIV/AIDS Reporting Status in 2023,...
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Health Secretary Francisco Duque said the number of Filipinos affected by HIV and AIDS "have drastically increased over the last couple of years." "Just over the past decade, the average rate of new HIV cases in the Philippines has grown from one per day to 31 per day. And this figure d...
YANGON, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- About 11,000 new HIV infections were recorded in Myanmar last year, U Myint Htwe, union minister for health and sports, said at a ceremony marking the World AIDS Day in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday. The HIV prevalence among them is at 29 percent for people who...
Affordable preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention led to an approximate 10-fold reduction in the incidence of new infections, according to results from what’s thought to be the largest and longest study of its kind. Previous PrEP studies had followed up participants for ...
Doxycycline Postexposure Prophylaxis and Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Individuals Using HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Michael W. Traeger, PhD, MSc; Wendy A. Leyden, MPH; Jonathan E. Volk, MD; et al. Abstract Full Text open access JAMA Intern Med. Published online January 6,...
"This study shows that the AIDS epidemic is not over by any means and that HIV/AIDS remains one of the biggest public health threats of our time," Professor Piot said. "The continuing high rate of over 2 million new HIV infections represents a collective failure which must be addressed thr...
New HIV infections in Fiji increased 260% since 2010, making Fiji the second fastest-growing epidemic in the Asia Pacific region
ZIMBABWE has reportedly recorded a reduction in new HIV infections in the past four years owing to a number of interventions as well as the COVID 19 pandemic.
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- New HIV infections among adolescents are projected to rise from 250,000 in 2015 to nearly 400,000 annually by 2030 if progress in reaching adolescents stalls, showed a new report released by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday. ...