HIV vaccine trial in Africa halted after disappointing initial results
African-led trial ended a year early as researchers conclude there is ‘little or no chance’ new combination vaccines cut HIV risk The first trial in...
Category : Aids and HIV
Countries that criminalise gay sex are impeding fight against Aids, UN warns
Anti-LGBTQ+ laws lead to stigmatism and deny access to lifesaving drugs and services Anti-homosexuality laws stop people from accessing lifesaving health services and seriously impede...
South Africa ‘can’t afford’ to pay for new anti-HIV drug, despite cut-price offer
The jab, given every two months, has been offered on a non-profit basis, but it can’t compete with a cheap daily HIV-prevention pill The South...
Ugandan president signs anti-LGBTQ+ law with death penalty for same-sex acts
Global outcry over Museveni’s assent to draconian new anti-gay law, condemned as a ‘permission slip for hate and dehumanisation’ Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, has signed...
Injectable HIV-prevention drug to be made in South Africa for the first time
Indian drug company to make cheaper generic version of CAB-LA, potentially protecting millions of people in Africa from the virus An affordable version of a...
Big pharma must value African lives above profits, warns head of UNAids
‘Racist’ inequalities leave sub-Saharan region bearing burden of more that half world’s new HIV infections, says Winnie Byanyima The head of UNAids, Winnie Byanyima, has...
Leading figures urge drugs firm to lower price of ‘game-changing’ HIV prevention drug
Signatories including Olly Alexander, Stephen Fry and Joseph Stiglitz issue a letter asking ViiV to make cabotegravir affordable to low- and middle-income countries Nobel laureates,...
‘Africa must be self-sufficient’: John Nkengasong on learning the deadly lessons of pandemics
The outgoing director of Africa Centres for Disease Control has seen Ebola, Aids and now Covid – and warns complacency is dangerous The past five...
