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Annual jab for HIV protection passes trial hurdle
An annual injection designed to guard against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has completed an important early safety trial, researchers report in The Lancet medical journal.Lenacapavir sto...Published: 12 Mar 2025 at 10:27hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
Man accuses wife of infecting him with HIV, bashes her
A 29-YEAR-OLD Glendale man was dragged to Concession magistrates courts yesterday after he assaulted his wife accusing her of infecting him with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).The man who ...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 14:57hrs | 7 | by Simbarashe Sithole
HIV drugs to be taken twice a year
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) treatment is awaiting government approval on the new drug Sunlenca (Lenacapavir) being taken twice a year by people with multi-drug resistant HlV type one....Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 08:56hrs | 12 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
PHOTO: Clinic to give HIV patients expired pills
An advert at an unnamed health institution which has gone viral online advises patients that expired pills for treating HIV have been given another shelf life and will be the given to patients. ...Published: 14 May 2019 at 21:31hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Decriminalising AIDS spreaders Is brutal and an assault to humanity
In 1996 the then Zimbabwe's Minister of Justice Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa oversaw the proposed legislation which makes it a criminal offence for a person who knows that he or she is infected with HI...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 14:40hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Man rapes, infects daughter with HIV
A 29-year-old Harare man allegedly raped and infected his 11-year-old daughter with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), a court heard yesterday. After the act, the man, (name withheld to prote...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
HIV life expectancy 'near normal' thanks to new drugs
Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have near-normal life expectancy because of improvements in treatments, a study in The Lancet suggests.Twenty-year-olds who started antiretroviral ther...Published: 11 May 2017 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by BBc
Botswana faces HIV crisis in prisons
A High Court landmark case in which a Zimbabwean HIV patient is challenging government's decision to refuse to provide HIV positive foreign inmates with ARVs despite a court order has sparked fear...Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 10:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
How HIV affects women
Research shows that the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is most prevalent in females and the findings leave many people with more questions than answers.Global statistics reveal HIV is most...Published: 02 Jun 2013 at 04:49hrs | | by In-Depth Reporter
Zimbabwean acrobat in Australia twice denied knowing he had HIV
A circus acrobat who is accused of deliberately giving his girlfriend HIV twice denied that he had the virus, a Queensland court has heard.Godfrey Zaburoni, 34, was asked at least twice by hi...Published: 15 Apr 2013 at 05:08hrs | | by AAP
Aids vaccine trial testing in South Africa
Chicago - Preparations are under way for a trial testing new beefed-up versions of Aids vaccines among heterosexuals in South Africa and men who have sex with men in Thailand. The...Published: 17 Jul 2012 at 04:45hrs | | by Reuters
More people living with the Aids virus
London - More people than ever are living with the Aids virus but this is largely due to better access to drugs that keep HIV patients alive and well for many years, the United Nations Aids programme ...Published: 25 Nov 2011 at 10:36hrs | 4 | by Reuters
AIDS breakthrough high hopes hit tight budgets
After 30 years and over 20 million deaths in Africa alone, US researchers report that early treatment of people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that leads to AIDS cuts transmissi...Published: 24 Aug 2011 at 18:49hrs | | by Michael Fleshman
Aids drugs used in Africa can cause premature ageing
London - A class of generic Aids drugs often used to treat HIV in Africa and other poor regions can cause premature ageing and lead to age-related illnesses such as heart disease and dementia, scien...Published: 27 Jun 2011 at 18:32hrs | 2 | by Reuters
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