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An ARV tablet being held in Kisumu, Kenya

Health United Kingdom

14. September 2025

Children’s Immune Systems May Be Key to HIV Cure

New findings suggest that children treated with antiretroviral drugs within the first six months of life could achieve long-term HIV remission—raising hope for the first scalable cure.

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Edwin Motse, an HIV-positive Aids activist in Botswana with his daughter Ompi

Health Botswana

11. September 2025

An Extraordinary Transformation towards an AIDS-Free Generation

Botswana has achieved what once seemed impossible: almost eliminating HIV transmission from mothers to their babies, making it the first high-HIV-burden country to earn the World Health Organization’s Gold Tier recognition.

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Health United States

1. August 2025

First-of-Its-Kind HIV Prevention Shot Just Got FDA Approved

The FDA has approved lenacapavir, the world's first HIV prevention shot that only needs to be taken twice a year.

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Health Australia

24. June 2025

One Leap Forward in Curing HIV

A team of researchers based in Melbourne, Australia, might have finally cracked the code to cure, once and for all, human immunodeficiency virus through mRNA technology, thus giving hope to millions of people carrying the virus.

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detail on a wall at the FRESH programme, where the trial was conducted

Health South Africa

5. May 2025

Fighting HIV: a Promising Sucess Story

As part of a groundbreaking HIV cure trial conducted in Durban, South Africa, 20% of participants remain off antiretroviral therapy while being virally suppressed after a year and a half, and these promising results could make a difference in the fight against the disease.

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A nurse takes blood from a patient for testing at a hospital in Monrovia, Liberia

Health Africa

19. December 2024

Celebrating the Wins Against This Bacterial Disease

With the high threat of tuberculosis (TB) around the world, the significant progress Africa has made in reducing infection rates and TB-related deaths is certainly worth celebrating.

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A doctor seeing a patient in a clinic in Mukono, central Uganda

Health Sub-Saharan Africa

16. September 2024

Fighting HIV Helps Us Live Longer

A newly published report from the United Nations shows that thanks to the fight against HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, life expectancy went from 56 years old in 2010 to 61 years old in 2023.

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Health The World

30. June 2024

Major Breakthrough in Protecting Women from HIV

A new antiviral drug is proving to give women total protection from HIV.

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Health USA

13. June 2024

One Vaccine That Can Cure HIV? They’re On It!

A team of scientists affiliated with Duke University in North Carolina, the United States, has developed an experimental vaccine that has the potential to cure HIV, and its findings represent a step forward toward a definitive cure for the deadly infection.

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Health South Africa

25. June 2023

Less and Less HIV Spreading Here

South Africa is seeing a decrease in the number of new HIV infections, three times lower in 2022 than in 1999, with prevention and treatment increasingly improved, used, and adopted.