Jalingo — The federal government has released N8 billion for the fight of HIV/AIDS in Taraba and Abia states through the National Agency for Control of HIV/AIDS SURE-P implementation programme.

Uyo — The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has said the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Nigeria has dropped from 5.1 per cent to 3.4 per cent.

PARIS – A lethal health crisis is brewing in Russian-annexed Crimea and war-torn eastern Ukraine, where heroin users have lost access to therapy to wean them off the drug, the U.N.’s AIDS envoy sai

An HIV diagnosis can be life changing. Yet new medications and therapeutic treatments are making it easier for patients dealing with the virus to live normal lives.

AT least 212 villagers have been infected with HIV in a remote Roka commune in northwest Cambodia's Battambang province, the Cambodian Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) joi

PARIS – Scientists seeking a cure for AIDS said Wednesday they had found important clues about how HIV manages to skirt detection after being suppressed by drugs.

The Nepal Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) was carried out in 2014 by Central Bureau of Statistics, Government of Nepal, as part of the global MICS programme. Technical support was provided by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF and the Government of Nepal provided financial support.

The Lancet presents the most recent update on the global, regional, and national causes of death. Against a backdrop of increased global improvements in life-expectancy, death rates for some causes – including drug use and liver cancer – continue to rise.

AIZAWL, Dec 1 – At least 9,637 people in Mizoram have been found to be HIV-positive while 587 AIDS patients died in the State in the last 24 years, according to Mizoram State AIDS Control Society.

Measuring a country's health performance has focused mostly on estimating levels of mortality. An alternative is to measure rates of decline in mortality, which are more sensitive to changes in health policy than are mortality levels. Historical rates of decline in mortality can also help test the feasibility of future health goals (eg, post-2015). We aimed to assess the annual rates of decline in under-5, maternal, tuberculosis, and HIV mortality over the past two decades for 109 low-income and middle-income countries.

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