Tagged with AIDS

USA Since founding the HIV advocacy group Prevention Access Campaign (PAC) and launching its Undetectable=Untransmittable (U=U) campaign in 2016, Bruce Richman has been focused on raising awareness around a revolutionary but widely unknown fact: people living with HIV who are on treatment and have an undetectable viral load cannot sexually transmit…

Global IAS – the International AIDS Society – is a 13,000-plus member organisation that aims to unite the worlds of HIV science, policy, and activism, and organises the biennial International AIDS Conference among other activities. IAS Executive Director Birgit Poniatowski lays out what attendees at the upcoming conference in Munich this…

Global Tremendous strides have been made in both treatment and prevention of AIDS and it is no longer among the 10 leading causes of death globally, however an estimated 39 million people were living with the disease globally in 2022. HIV treatments has become more manageable and are reaching more patients…

Africa While HIV has shifted from a death sentence to a manageable disease in most developed nations, there are several reasons why it still represents a huge global issue. It remains highly infectious and difficult to detect in the early stages of infection, while existing treatments are unavailable or too expensive…

Denmark GN Hearing CEO Gitte Aabo highlights the significant unmet needs of hearing impairment patients, the role of private companies like GN in fighting against stigmas surrounding hearing aids, the digital innovations occurring in the space, and her leadership strategy moving forward.   It takes an average of seven years for…

HIV Hopes have been raised of a cure for AIDS after a patient in London became free of the HIV virus following a bone marrow transplant.   Although it is not a viable large-scale strategy for a cure … these new findings reaffirm our belief that there exists a proof of…

Pharma The following chart shows the prevalence of HIV and AIDS in South Africa; a country where 6.3 million people are living with HIV and in which there are 200,000 AIDS-related deaths per year. Click here to read more articles and interviews from South Africa, and to download the latest free…