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iafrica.com HIV infection rate doubled for African women
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HIV infection rate doubled for African womenShare©ueligiezendanner/istockThe number of HIV-infected people taking anti-retroviral medicine has doubled in just five years, the UN said Monday, while highlighting high infection rates among young African women.A new report by UNAIDS said it was on course to hit a target of 30 million people on ARV treatment by 2020."By June 2016, around 18.2 million people had access to the life-saving medicines, including 910,000 children, double the number five years earlier," UNAIDS said in a statement.
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Researchers make significant progress in developing frontline protection against HIV infection
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Researchers have made significant progress in the development of a potential vaccine to protect against HIV infection.For the first time, researchers have shown that a combined approach - using a common cold virus to introduce a vaccine into the body, as well as an injection of a DNA-based vaccine - results in the immune system actively protecting against HIV in the gut and bodily cavities.The laboratory studies, conducted so far in mice and now published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, represent an important step forward in attempts to introduce a first line of defense against HIV at the site of infection.
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Even as HIV treatment soars, young women still face high infection risk, UN warns
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Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé (left) with President of Namibia, Hage Geingob and his wife Monica, at the launch of Get on the Fast-Track: the life-cycle approach to HIV, in Windhoek, Namibia.Photo: UNAIDS21 November 2016 – The United Nations warned today that while more people than ever are accessing antiretroviral treatment for HIV, girls aged 15 to 24, transitioning to womanhood, face many HIV-related challenges, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, and called for a life-cycle approach to finding solutions for everyone, at all stages of life."Young women are facing a triple threat," said Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), in a press press release, "they are at high risk of HIV infection, have low rates of HIV testing, and have poor adherence to treatment."Launching in Windhoek, Namibia, a report entitled Get on the Fast-Track: the life- cycle approach to HIV, Mr. Sidibé and President Hage Geingob underscored that prevention is the key to ending the AIDS epidemic among young women.
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