Tag Archives: HIV

Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B  World Health Organization (WHO) Maldives first to achieve elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B  Deccan Herald Barbados prepares for certification to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV, Syphilis, and Hepatitis B  Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Maldives First Country to Achieve ‘Triple Elimination’ …

The Philippines has earned the unenviable — and embarrassing —  title of “the country with the fastest rising rates of HIV in Asia and the Pacific.” While the region overall has experienced a 13% drop in the number of cases since 2010, the Philippines has reported a 550% increase between 2010 and 2024, prompting the DOH to push for declaring HIV …

RALEIGH, N.C. (WKRC) — A hospital patient allegedly removed an IV from his arm and used his “HIV positive blood” as a weapon by spraying it into the eyes of medical personnel. According to an arrest warrant obtained by Law&Crime, 25-year-old Kameron Gilchrist was being treated for diabetes at UNC Rex Hospital on March 21, 2025. Gilchrist began spraying “his …

A Raleigh man is accused of spraying blood in the eyes of health care workers.  Kameron Gilchrist, 25, faces two charges for assaulting emergency personnel. He’s accused of exposing two employees to HIV.  It is unclear whether the two employees contracted HIV through the incident on March 21, 2025. Authorities arrested Gilchrist on Sept. 11. UNC Health Rex wouldn’t comment on specific patient …

A man suing as ‘John Doe’ has filed a complaint at Los Angeles Superior Court alleging that, while interning and seeking a break in the music business in late 2014, he was taken to an after-party in Val Verde where he was drugged, woke with injuries, and months later learned he had contracted HIV. The claim, set out in the …

Getty Images Intravenous drug use is fuelling Fiji’s HIV epidemic Ten: that’s the age of the youngest person with HIV that Sesenieli Naitala has ever met. When she first started Fiji’s Survivor Advocacy Network in 2013, that young boy was yet to be born. Now he is one of thousands of Fijians to have contracted the bloodborne virus in recent …

In a bold step towards tackling the HIV epidemic, the Ministry of Health and Wellness is now considering a pilot programme for the first US Food and Drug Administration-approved injectable HIV prevention drug, lenacapavir. The drug has been described by former United States President Bill Clinton as “a genuine chance to end” the global epidemic. Jamaica’s decision to embark on …

MUMBAI: There will be a dramatic shift in how the world prevents HIV and the timelines depend on how quickly Indian drug regulators act. A US-based pharma giant has granted royalty-free licences to four Indian generic manufacturers to produce lenacapavir, which prevents transmission by almost 100%, at $40 per person per year, roughly 0.1% of the original cost.Lenacapavir is an …

N70,000 HIV prevention injection splits Nigerians  Punch Newspapers Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.  The New York Times ‘We can end HIV’: Groundbreaking preventative drug to be rolled out for $40 a year from 2027  France 24 Unitaid, CHAI, and Wits RHI enter into a landmark agreement with Dr. Reddy’s to make HIV prevention tool lenacapavir affordable in LMICs  Clinton Health …

This major US city just reported a rise in new HIV cases  Queerty S.F. reports another worrying uptick in HIV cases, with decades of progress stalled  San Francisco Chronicle SF sees uptick in new HIV cases, especially among Black people and women  Bay Area Reporter Source link