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 ...
La Coordinadora estatal de VIH y sida, CESIDA, ha presentado esta mañana en el Hospital Clínico San Carlos de Madrid un manual sobre el VIH para personas educadoras pares así como 6 guías de apoyo ...
More than 90% of HIV-positive people treated with direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis C – including many with liver cirrhosis – achieved sustained virological response and few discontinued treatment due to side-effects ...
Doctors in Barcelona, Spain believe they have found the cure to HIV – the AIDS-causing virus that affects the lives of more than 34 million people worldwide, according to WHO. By using blood transplants from the ...
