HIV

NCDs account for 70 percent of the global deaths, killing 41 million people worldwide every year. and almost 66 percent of these deaths are...

Scientific evidence proves that criminalization is a direct threat to the HIV response. Countries with progressive laws and human rights protection in place are...

Several long-acting HIV treatment modalities including injectable, oral, implant, or antibody therapy are currently under different stages of development. Writes Shobha Shukla It was...

The European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization have already approved the ring for use as an additional prevention choice for women in...

Research to combat HIV continues. Proof of this is that a trial to develop a preventive vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS will begin in April. It is led by French...

Let us not forget that HIV positive children born to HIV positive parent(s) are innocent sufferers of the tragic consequence of the HIV epidemic....

While an increasing number of people living with HIV are now accessing antiretroviral treatment and getting virologic suppression, we seem to be failing on...

Shobha Shukla    While the currently available HIV prevention and treatment tools have helped reduce new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths by 23% and 39%...

Shobha Shukla  You guessed it right. I am talking about the dapivirine vaginal ring (DPV-VR), which is one of the top advances happening in the...

Sex and travel have a long association, dating from the ancient world onwards, and their connection is still apparent today. Sex tourism is defined...