The inequalities economic and social, especially racial and sexual discrimination, are prolonging the AIDS pandemic, warned the executive director of Onusida, Winnie Byanyima, in an interview with EFE. “After 40 years of fighting HIV and AIDS, we know that inequalities drive pandemics and prevent us from ending them. And that pandemics also drive inequalities, as […]
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USA: Judge strikes down Obamacare coverage for HIV and cancer prevention
A federal judge in Texas on Thursday struck down a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, jeopardizing a range of preventive services, including screenings for cancer and mental health. The magistrate Reed O’Connorwho has already issued several rulings against the health law promulgated by the president Barack Obama in 2010, he […]
Nobel Prize in Medicine, Luc Montagnier, co-discoverer of HIV, died in Paris at the age of 89
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Paris. French virologist Luc Montagnier, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 after having managed to isolate the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) for the first time, died on Tuesday at the age of 89, French media announced on Thursday. His death occurred at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, next to Paris, the newspaper […]
New, more virulent and transmissible variant of HIV discovered
Researchers have identified a highly contagious variant of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which began to circulate in the Netherlands in the 1990s. A rare scientific finding that, however, should not cause panic, they clarify. The variant responds to existing treatments and has been in decline since 2010. “There is no reason to be alarmed”, […]