The International AIDS Society has highlighted key areas that researchers should focus on in their quest to find an HIV cure, as the world marks World AIDS Day today. Listing understanding HIV reservoirs, HIV reservoir measurement, mechanisms of virus control, targeting the immune system in addition to Cell and gene therapy as top on agenda…
Ninety-six percent of Mbale youths do not know how to use condoms. Speaking during a science cafe organized to train journalists on health reporting this afternoon, Robert Wandwasi , the district Community Development Offcer -CDO disclosed that only 4% of the youths in Mbale know how to use condoms, with vast majority using them wrongly.…
A total of 157 volunteers have so far enrolled in a study happening in Masaka, one of the sites that have been selected to assess effectiveness of a vaccine against HIV in Africa. The study dubbed PrEPVACC is also happening in Mbeya and Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, Maputo in Mozambique and in Durban South Africa, but…
Name of person responsible /Facilitator: Esther Nakkazi Café Name/Title: HIV Prevention Sponsor: AVAC Speaker’s name Dr. Bernard Kikaire; Uganda Virus Research Institute Patricia Magoba; Aids Orphans Education Trust Edmund Tayebwa; The Aids Support Organization (TASO) The speakers came from the Uganda Virus Research Institute, The Aids Support Organization, and the Aids Orphans Education Trust. Date…