Kiconco with her husband, Kisoro Musirimu A 37-year-old Ugandan woman, Faridah Kiconco, who received HIV treatments for six years before discovering she was never positive, has demanded for compensation. When Kiconco, a resident of Kiziba Parish, Kagango Sub-county in Sheema District, became pregnant in 2011, she sought antenatal services at the nearby Kabwohe Health Centre IV. The health workers advised her to first do an HIV test, which turned out positive and she was consequently put on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART). “When I was …
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French virologist, Luc Montagnier, the man credited as a co-discoverer of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has died aged 89. Luc Montagnier died on Tuesday, February 8 in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, northwest of Paris, the town’s mayor told reporters. Local news site FranceSoir reported he died on Tuesday in Neuilly-sur-Seine “surrounded by his children”. Montagnier was jointly awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for his work in isolating the virus that causes Aids but was later dismissed …
A Kenyan lady, Harriet Vihenda Akunava took to social media to beg for forgiveness as she revealed that she is HIV positive. While many thought she was joking, the lady released a video in which she showed off a test strip result to corroborate her claim. Akunava who disclosed that she has been deliberately infecting men with the virus, wrote; “It’s time I come clean. I was bitter for many months but I can’t do this anymore. I am …
A 35-year-old Brazilian man who went into long-term remission after being treated for less than a year with an intensified multi-drug cocktail of AIDS medicines, has raised hope of a potential breakthrough on Tuesday July 7. The man who tested positive for HIV in 2012, was treated with a base of antiretroviral therapy or ART which was boosted with additional antiretrovirals, plus a drug called nicotinamide (a form of vitamin B3). His intensified treatment was halted after 48 weeks and researchers who …
In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, UNAIDS and Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (RB) are joining forces to help protect people living with HIV across Africa. Working through the UNAIDS network, the partnership hopes to reach approximately 220,000 individuals across 22 countries in Africa including Nigeria, with a Hygiene pack that contains three-month supply of Dettol bar soap and JIK bleach. The market value of these products is over N800 Million. L-R: Mr Clifford Emmanuel; National Secretary/Program Manager NEPWHAN, …
Mike Ryan, the Executive director of the World Health Organization health emergency program, has said that just like HIV, the novel Coronavirus may never go away. HIV/AIDS was first clinically observed in 1981 in the United States and almost 40 years after, no vaccine or cure has been developed for the virus which has so far killed nearly a million people. Ryan while speaking in an online briefing today May 13, said the virus may just become one of the known viruses that kills …