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Talking about sex isn’t always easy for teachers in South Africa. Here’s what they told us

Young people in rural Limpopo, the South African province bordering Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, face high risks of HIV, unplanned pregnancy, and other societal challenges.

The Conversation

Putin's 'Last Chance Army': HIV-Positive and Sick Civilians Lured With False Healthcare Promises to Fight in Ukraine

Russia is reportedly recruiting HIV-positive and sick civilians with false promises of healthcare in exchange for fighting in Ukraine. Critics have branded the campaign Putin's 'last chance army.'

International Business Times UK

‘My dad is a sick freak’: Woman’s father purposefully got HIV so daughter would look after him

The woman shared her very traumatic things her father had done with her viewers on TikTok.

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Breakthrough study could lead to single-dose vaccine for HIV and Covid

The study treated mice with a vaccine that combined two different immunity stimulants

The Independent UK

EU approves new twice-yearly HIV prevention jab

The new treatment option comes amid a rise in HIV cases in parts of Europe.

Euronews

‘I was imprisoned for six months for being HIV-positive’

LIFE STORIES: Robert Suttle, an advocate for the rights of those living with HIV, was sentenced to jail after a former partner accused him of not disclosing his HIV-positive status before they had sex. He tells Ellie Muir about the outdated laws surrounding HIV that still exist in some US…

The Independent UK

Deadly infectious diseases on Australia's doorstep

Australia has been urged to help fight the deadly infectious diseases on its doorstep, including two major HIV outbreaks.

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South Africa's most vulnerable struggle to find HIV medication after US aid cuts

Sex workers and transgender people are among South Africa's most vulnerable populations after the Trump administration slashed U.S. foreign aid and U.S.-funded health clinics dispensing HIV medication shut down

The Independent UK

This Overlooked Biotech Stock Is a Buy for Its Hidden Strengths

This biotech giant has hidden strengths that could unlock long-term upside.

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Botswana was once ‘at risk of extinction’ from HIV. Now it is a world leader in eliminating the virus in children

The pioneering African country is lauded for slashing rates of mother-to-child transmission to just 1.2% and is holding trials that may now hold the key to curing young people

The Guardian - UK

CVS Health Declines To Add Gilead's Steeply Priced New HIV Prevention Drug To Its Plans

CVS Health Inc. (NYSE:CVS) said it will not add Gilead Sciences Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GILD) new HIV prevention drug Yeztugo to its commercial plans.

Benzinga

Condoms, PrEP and vaccines: how the UK is expanding STI prevention

The UK has just introduced the world’s first national programme offering a vaccine to help protect against gonorrhoea. This coincides with increasing rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including antibiotic-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, particularly among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.

The Conversation

Friday essay: Trump and Kennedy are destroying global science. Even Einstein questioned facts – but there’s a method to it

Eight months into Donald Trump’s second presidency of the United States, truth and science are again under attack – with global consequences. USAID, which tackled HIV, TB, malaria and child malnutrition is gone. Funding has been withdrawn from GAVI, a public–private global alliance that helps buy vaccines for the world’s…

The Conversation

UK set to get first hospice dedicated to LGBTQ+ people with specialist HIV focus

A Hospice UK report released in 2023 found that end of life care received by trans and gender diverse people was usually not inclusive

The Independent UK

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Experimental HIV vaccines show promise in early safety test

Several vaccines for HIV have been tested in animal studies and an early safety trial in people, showing promising results in both.

The Independent UK

A single injection for newborns could protect them against HIV for years, study suggests

Globally, an estimated 1.3 million women and girls living with HIV become pregnant every year, according to the World Health Organization

The Independent UK

RFK Jr. looks to boot panel that decides which HIV and cancer screenings will be free: report

Decisions from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force impact millions of people’s access to preventative care for cancer, infectious diseases and mental health

Benzinga

Gilead's Newly Approved HIV Prevention Drug Poised To Add Billions To Future Sales

In June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Gilead Sciences, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GILD) Yeztugo (lenacapavir) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce the risk of sexually acquired HIV in adults and adolescents weighing at least 35kg, making it the first and only twice-yearly option available in the U.S. for people who need or…

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The Independent UK

EU regulator approves injectable HIV drug that experts say could help stop transmission

The European Medicines Agency has recommended authorizing a twice-yearly injectable drug to prevent HIV

Euronews

EU regulators greenlight twice-yearly HIV injection, hailed as medical breakthrough

The drug is expected to be formally approved by the European Commission this year.

The Conversation

‘People who spent years saving lives are now struggling to survive’ – how we witnessed Trump’s USAID cuts devastate health programmes in Kenya

My phone wouldn’t stop ringing – nurses, social workers, young mothers – all begging for help. ‘I’ve lost my job,’ ‘I have no food,’ ‘What do we do now?’ I felt helpless.

The Independent UK

The Pepfar programme keeps millions with HIV alive – a new push seeks to save it from Trump’s aid cuts

The US Senate votes to keep money for the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief from a package of more than $9 billion in cuts going through Congress

Fortune

Trump’s $9 billion spending cuts could spare $400 million for HIV/AIDS relief

The move to save PEPFAR funding may prove useful in rallying GOP support from powerful lawmakers like Senate Appropriations chair Susan Collins, an outspoken critic of Trump’s proposed cuts.

The Independent UK

What to know about the African kingdom of Eswatini where the US sent 5 deportees

The United States has deported five immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos to Eswatini, a small country in southern Africa where the king still holds absolute power

The Independent UK

PEPFAR keeps millions of people with HIV alive and may be spared from Trump spending cuts

The program known as PEPFAR is one of the most effective and popular U.S. foreign aid projects in history, and the government says it has saved the lives of over 25 million people around the world with HIV

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