Authorities in Mozambique say over 14,000 HIV patients have abandoned antiretroviral therapy in the first three months of the year in the central province of Zambézia. Male patients form the largest part of those no longer taking the drugs, according to Dr Cheinaze Veríssimo – the provincial head of the …
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South Africa’s health products regulator, Sahpra, has withheld approval for Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine over concerns that it could increase the risk of HIV infection among men. The decision was based on two earlier studies that tested the safety of a modified form of adenovirus contained in the Russian …
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Human Rights Watch says the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo repeatedly ignored security warnings which preceded a prison riot last year in which inmates raped dozens of female detainees, including a teenage girl. Nearly 2,000 prisoners in the city of Lumumbashi rioted in September 2020, setting fire to …
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They are in total nine to be arrested bythe police in cameroon for practicing homosexuality. According to a police officer and a lawyer, two of them are still in custody. An officer in the town of Bafoussam, where the nine men were arrested said: “we arrested them to check if …
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A drug that shields women from HIV. Sounds good, right? Despite advances in treatment and prevention, HIV is still rampant across parts of the continent. In east and southern Africa, more than 20 million people are living with the virus. Young women are particularly at risk: they’re twice as likely …
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