Tag: HIV
360,000 adolescents expected to die of AIDS by 2030 – UNICEF
Some 360,000 adolescents are expected to die of AIDS by 2030 if investment in HIV prevention is not ramped up, according to a UNICEF...
5 reasons you should repeatedly test for sexually transmitted infections
Despite the continuous effort of government and private entities to hold screening, awareness and sensitisation events, the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is...
Don’t let another woman breastfeed your baby, Rev Sister tells women
Rev. Sister Eunice Okobia of Medical Missionaries of Mary Clinic, ACO Housing Estate, Abuja has advised nursing mothers against giving their babies to relatives...
MTV focuses on HIV prevention, self-testing in new drama series
MTV Staying Alive Foundation (MTV SAF), Unitaid, and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on Wednesday announced a three-year partnership to introduce and...
Police arrest man for allegedly infecting more than 200 with HIV
An HIV-positive man who might have consciously passed on the deadly virus to more than 200 sexual partners has been arrested in Italy.
A spokesman...
People living with HIV/AIDS beg JOHESU to end strike
The Network of People Living with HIV andAIDS (NEPWHAN) on Friday appealed to the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) to end its nationwide strike...
Court sentences HIV-positive man to 6 years in prison for raping...
A court in the Northern German City of Hamburg on Tuesday sentenced an HIV-positive man to six years in prison for raping an 82-year-old woman.
The...
Quack doctor infects 33 with HIV
Police on Tuesday filed a complaint against a quack doctor who infected 33 people in northern India with HIV after using contaminated syringes and...
NGOs slam Global Fund partnership with Heineken
Civil society groups Thursday called on The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to scrap a new partnership with Dutch brewing giant...
Wife denies husband sex for fear of contracting HIV
A housewife, Bayonle Bamidele, on Tuesday told an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court in Agodi, Ibadan, that she denied her husband, Adeyemi Bamidele, sex for fear...