#Africa

A new analysis of a massive amount of global data reached a conclusion similar to that of previous research.

Listen to personal tales from the global urban AIDS response, including reports from five U.S. cities.

This is according to a survey conducted in South Africa.

A speedy overview of the major scientific findings presented at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam (AIDS 2018)

The program included testing, counseling, linkage to medical care for HIV and immediate treatment and stepped-up male circumcision.

A South African study found that this cost-savings measure did not change the likelihood of viral suppression after 48 weeks.

Researchers either gave communities standard of care treatment or a multi-disease prevention campaign with rapid HIV treatment.

After a decade of phenomenal growth, donor funding for low- and middle-income nations fell 7 percent between 2012 and 2017.

Boasting a 77 percent viral suppression rate, the hard-hit African nation has already surpassed UNAIDS’s epidemic-control targets for 2020.

Ninety-six–week data from the Phase I/IIa trial showed the mosaic vaccine was safe and offered a broad and durable immune response.

A large ongoing study in Botswana has found that about 1 in 150 babies exposed to Tivicay at conception developed such birth defects.

The evidence remains inconclusive, with a few reports of women with a very low viral load transmitting HIV to their babies.

Published results have updated preliminary findings presented at a previous conference.

Various other studies have indeed found such a link.

Photographer Robin Hammond’s work gets highlighted by rock icon Elton John in The New York Times.

However, the majority of children with HIV in the 20 highest burden nations still aren’t on antiretrovirals.