Cairo (Special about Egypt) – Egypt and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria signed a framework agreement aimed at strengthening health systems in Egypt, according to United Nations Development Program website. This initiative reinforces Egypt’s continued commitment to combating HIV and TB while addressing the ongoing challenges of COVID-19. The United Nations … Read more
The Surabaya City Health Service reminds us of the importance of HIV testing before marriage, to prevent transmission to children and partners. Nanik Sukristina, Head of Surabaya City Health Office, said that preventive measures for HIV have been implemented. Start giving ARV drugs to HIV-positive pregnant women. Strengthen education about transmission and prevention methods to … Read more
Surabaya – F (9), a girl in Mojo Village, Surabaya, experienced an unfortunate fate. The grade 2 primary school student was diagnosed with late-stage HIV. It is known that F lives with his older brother D (14), Dani’s father Ari Prabowo (35), grandmother Kanipah (57) and grandfather Harijono (65). The girl was under the care … Read more
Chinese pharmaceutical giant Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical is expected to complete the first phase of its manufacturing facility near Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s biggest city, for antimalarial drugs and antibiotics by the end of the year. The manufacturing facility, financed with €50 million (US$54.7) from the International Finance Corporation last year, is expected to produce 5 billion … Read more
In Brazil, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, six patients who received an organ transplant tested positive for HIV. This situation, described as “serious” by the Ministry of Health, is the subject of an investigation. Six organ transplant patients have tested positive for the AIDS virus in the state of Rio de Janeiro, a … Read more
MONTREAL, Oct. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Theratechnologies Inc. (“Theratechnologies” or the “Company”) (TSX: TH) (NASDAQ: THTX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of treatments Innovators, today announced three upcoming poster presentations at the IDWeek 2024 conference, taking place October 16-19 in Los Angeles, California. One poster presents data linking excess abdominal … Read more
Worldwide, seven people (two patients from Berlin, one each from London, Düsseldorf, New York, City of Hope and Geneva) are considered probably cured of HIV infection after receiving a bone marrow transplant for the treatment of blood cancer. The particularity of the patient from Geneva, followed at HUG, in collaboration with thePasteur Institutel’Institut Cochin and … Read more
Mexico City. The Federal Commission for the Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris) authorized an innovative clinical trial to evaluate the interaction between gender affirmation therapy and treatments against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The research protocol will examine how estradiol (female sex hormone) relates to three therapeutic combinations for HIV: bictegravir/tenofovir/emtricitabine; dolutegravir/tenofovir/emtricitabine (or lamivudine) and … Read more
Special Olympics and athletes’ health, first victims of Oropouche fever in Brazil, AIDS news, contaminated tattoo inks in the United States, literary prize of the Academy of Medicine… A selection of international health news covered by our local editorial teams. JO AND HEALTH What diet for top athletes? Should top athletes be subjected to an … Read more
GENOA – “We’ve a brand new HIV prognosis each week and sadly they’re all the time late now we have to work on prevention, sadly for a lot of younger folks it seems like a illness that now not exists.” So the professor Matteo Bassetti director of the intercompany regional division of infectious ailments in … Read more