One of the first groups of AIDS patients to receive free HIV drugs in a public health setting in the developing world is living as long as those in the United States, according to research conducted by Weill Cornell ...
Five years after a massive earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, the crowded capital of Haiti, killing between 160,000 and 200,000 people and displacing more than 1.5 million people to tent camps, there are ...
It’s been four years since Port-au-Prince collapsed, and Haiti’s women are still working through the damage—both physical and mental—left by the catastrophic 2010 earthquake and its aftermath. The cameras and ...
In a major advance in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis, the Haitian Study Group on Opportunistic Infections and Kaposi's Sarcoma, or GHESKIO, has opened a state-of-the-art hospital in Port-au-Prince ...
The courtyard, tucked off a quiet road here and ringed by mango trees heavy with immature green fruit, was bedecked with a rainbow of balloons. One proclaimed “Happy Valentines Day!” though it was May ...
The first documented case of HIV in Haiti was at the Clinique Bon Sauveur in the Central Plateau in 1986. Within two years, the clinic had introduced a programme of free testing, counselling, condoms, HIV education ...
Before an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, the country’s HIV and AIDS response focused largely on treatment, care and support – with much less attention given to preventing the spread of the virus ...
«Hay que volver a hablar del sida». Es el lema de la campaña de este año en la Fundación Lucha contra el sida. Y es, lamentablemente, una realidad: la enfermedad está muy lejos de desaparecer. De hecho ...
Hoy en día, la triple terapia es el tratamiento estándar para el virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH)i. Una combinación de tres fármacos que los pacientes portadores del virus deben tomar de manera indefinida ...
Spain's top research institution said Thursday it has patented an HIV test that can detect the AIDS-causing virus within a week of infection, the fastest yet. A "biosensor" developed by scientists of the ...
