Trump's aid funding freeze derails HIV prevention efforts in Asia Pacific amid rising epidemics
The region has the largest HIV epidemic outside of Africa, with 300,000 new cases and 150,00 AIDS-related deaths in 2023.
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HIV vs. AIDS: How They Differ and Why Early Treatment Matters
People with AIDS also have HIV, as HIV is the first stage of AIDS. Learn about the differences, how the conditions overlap, ...
Opinion
I’ve been able to live a happy life after my AIDS diagnosis. Trump could upend that.
Federal funding has helped make my HIV undetectable and restored me to health. But I'm afraid funding for my medications will dry up during Trump's administration.
UNAIDS5d
From violence to funding cuts, Asia Pacific women living with HIV face old and new challenges
UNAIDS estimates that under two-thirds (64%) of women living with HIV in Asia Pacific receive treatment to prevent ...
Trump is cancelling a republican project to wipe out AIDS, putting millions of lives at risk
Enormous progress has been made in tackling the global HIV epidemics over the past two decades. The number of people dying ...
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From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health
AIDS arrived as American politics took a sharp conservative turn with the election of President Ronald Reagan. When in 1985 it became possible to test for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the prospect ...
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Coronavirus 2.0 coming soon? China discovers new virus with potential to infect humans, here’s all we know
Published in the journal Cell, the study highlights that the bat virus, named HKU5-CoV-2, shares a key feature with SARS-CoV-2 — the furin cleavage site — which aids in cell entry via the ACE2 ...
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HIV/AIDS News
King Holmes, MD, PhD, an infectious diseases physician and researcher who helped create modern STI research and was a central figure in the early AIDS epidemic, died Sunday at the age of 87 years ...
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COVID Broke the Rules of Virus Evolution
In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus ...
The Hindu24d
Zydus launches vaccine for new strain of influenza virus
Zydus Lifesciences on Wednesday (February 26, 2025) said it is introducing a vaccine for protection against new strain of influenza virus. “The company is introducing country’s first flu ...
India TV28d
Covid returns? China finds new bat coronavirus with animal-to-human transmission risk: Report
The report underscores that the virus, found by a Chinese team of virologists, uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19. The virus reportedly has the ability to bind to the ...
The Telegraph28d
New bat coronavirus uses same human cell entry as Covid-19, raising future concerns
A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it could someday spread ...