#Africa

Health researchers are testing the flying bots in remote rural regions and congested urban areas alike.

A new global alliance launches to end AIDS in children by 2030. Currently, only half of children with HIV are on lifesaving treatment.

Generic cabotegravir, an every-other-month injectable to prevent HIV, will arrive in select countries. WHO and Health Gap have opinions.

The nation tops the list of countries that not only include trans people in their plans to end HIV but also back policy with funding.

Abbott researchers found a high proportion of elite HIV controllers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which could lead to cure insights.

The REPRIEVE study, which is primarily looking at a statin’s effect on cardiovascular disease, is shedding light on many other mysteries.

A community leader and academic, Simmons also led the DC-based HIV nonprofit Us Helping Us. He died of prostate cancer.

“This is excellent news for all children living with HIV.”

Hepatitis B and C, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and alcohol-related liver disease are the main causes of liver cancer and cirrhosis.

Researchers gave the vaccine, previously studied in Thailand, to participants in South Africa.

Events are scheduled throughout September to raise awareness about hep B and HIV in these communities.

It likely aided the human species’s expansion but was eventually outmatched by an evolving virus.

A machine learning algorithm designed small sets of proteins that boasted the greatest potential to elicit a broad-based immune response.

The awesome mental health powers of comic book champions of color

But scientists continue to overlook Africans in genome research.

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