3.4million Nigerians are living with HIV – Health Minister

Doctors at the centre said that it was one of the three nodal centres in the State, apart from Chennai and Salem, where second line therapy for HIV positive patients, who have developed resistance to first line treatment, was available. Maximizing these tools requires working together to confront and overcome the challenges that remain.

HIV has killed an estimated 39 million people to date and is at epidemic levels globally, CNN has reported. The path forward is clearer than ever, and the time to act is now.

Everyone should know his or her HIV status and get tested.

Notwithstanding the existing anti-gay law in Nigeria, the practice of homosexuality secretly appears to be fuelling the increase of new HIV infections in the country, a new release by the Federal Ministry of Health revealed.

As of 2012, approximately 35 million people worldwide are living with HIV or AIDS and we are seeing a growing trend right here in the Heartland.

For every 10 people who have HIV, six of them don’t know they have it.

Raye St. Denys is the executive director of Shining Mountain Living Community Services, an organization that provides housing primarily for aboriginal women at risk, and says the vulnerabilities from social determinants of health are higher among aboriginal populations.

Millions of people around the world are infected with the HIV virus…which causes aids.

São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are also testing pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, to allow those who are HIV-negative to take antiretroviral drugs to curb their risk of infection.

The collaborative effort, announced this morning at the City-County Building, Downtown, aims to slash HIV infection rates countywide and strengthen health care for those already infected.

Although you can live with the disease, Milano says the impacts should not be downplayed.

Joyce Njoki, a 22-year-old mother of one told Anadolu agency that stigma and discrimination against people, who are HIV positive or have AIDS, should end.

“I actually asked him to get engaged here, because I wanted other people to see that just because you have the virus you can get married, and be happy”. We’re committed to using them.

He said since then, great strides have been made, especially with medication.