HIV/AIDS
Journalists From West and Central Africa Schooled On New HIV Plan
About 30 journalists from 25 West and Central African countries have undergone capacity training on a new HIV Catch-Up...
Ghanaian Doctor Carries Out Surgery At Kumasi Hospital
A Ghanaian doctor at a hospital in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Dr. Samuel Amanamah, has successfully carried out Ghana’s...
Reasons Why Rate of Infections Is On The Rise
The rate of HIV-AIDS in Ghana has taken a rise in recent times, with activists warning that the situation could get...
275 People Die of HIV-AIDS In Ashanti
Two hundred and seventy-five (275) people died of HIV/AIDS in the Ashanti Region, last year. Mr. Dennis Bandoh, the...
275 People Die of HIV-AIDS In Ashanti
Two hundred and seventy-five (275) people died of HIV/AIDS in the Ashanti Region, last year. Late reporting to the...
Antibody Helps Keep Man’s HIV At Bay For 10 Months
Antibody helps keep man’s HIV at bay for 10 months An experimental therapy has held back one man’s HIV infection...
South African Child ‘virtually Cured’ of HIV
A nine-year-old infected with HIV at birth has spent most of their life without needing any treatment, say doctors in...
Swaziland Turns Around World’s Highest HIV Infection Rate
Swaziland, which bears the world's heaviest HIV burden, has halved the rate of new infections in five years by boosting...
South African Child ‘virtually Cured’ of HIV
A nine-year-old infected with HIV at birth has spent most of their life without needing any treatment, say doctors in...
South African Girl, 9, Is Third Child With HIV Remission
A South African girl has become only the third child to beat the AIDS virus into long-term remission -- almost nine...
Women With HIV In Cameroon Still Stigmatised
Blandine, a 28-year-old mother of a baby girl, sits restlessly on a chair in a womens' health centre in Cameroon's...
Headway On AIDS Threatened By Funding Slowdown
Progress in beating back the AIDS epidemic risks being eroded by a funding shortfall set to grow under Donald Trump's...
Aids Deaths Halve As More Get Drugs
Aids deaths halve as more get drugs Deaths linked to Aids have halved in a decade, official figures shows. The...
AIDS Deaths Halve As More Get Drugs
Deaths linked to Aids have halved in a decade, official figures shows. The condition, which is caused by HIV, used to...
Amid Turning Tide, AIDS Claimed 1 Million Lives In 2016
AIDS claimed a million lives in 2016, almost half the 2005 toll that marked the peak of the deadly epidemic, said a UN...
132 Women Tested HIV Positive In 2016
One-hundred and thirty-two pregnant women in the Tema metropolis tested positive to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus...
Oral Sex Producing Unstoppable Bacteria – Health Experts Warn
Oral sex is producing dangerous gonorrhoea and a decline in condom use is helping it to spread, the World Health...
Oral Sex Producing Unstoppable Bacteria
Oral sex is producing dangerous gonorrhoea and a decline in condom use is helping it to spread, the World Health...
Africa Gets Generic Version of Most Effective HIV Drug
The generic version of the most advanced drug against HIV has been introduced in Kenya, a first in Africa where more...