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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.

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Health Germany

17. March 2023

Stem Cell Transplant Success: Another HIV Patient Cured

A stem cell transplant cured a German man with HIV who thus became the third person to gain back his health thanks to this treatment, and scientists are hoping that this achievement will help cure other patients dealing with the fatal illness.

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Health The World

24. January 2023

Drastic Drop in HIV-Positive Babies, Thanks to This Global Plan

There has been a 50 percent reduction in new mother-to-child HIV transmission cases worldwide in recent years.

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Health The World

9. October 2022

Countries Band Together to Fight Deadly Diseases

Many countries have just funded the seventh replenishment for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

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Health Botswana

31. July 2022

Success: Mother-to-Child HIV Numbers See Big Drop

The World Health Organization (WHO) granted Botswana a certification stating that the African country is on its way to eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission, thus proving that an AIDS-free generation is possible.

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Health USA

8. March 2022

She’s the First Woman to Be Cured of H.I.V.

An American mixed-race woman became the third person in the world - and first woman - to be cured of H.I.V. using umbilical cord blood as a new transplant method, thus giving hope in curing a larger array of patients.