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Many people who use PEP for HIV are also highly likely to have a mental health issue, according to new research published in AIDS and Behaviour this month. 

Two major studies presented at the recent International AIDS Conference in Vancouver highlight the importance of peer and community interventions in improving outcomes for mothers living with HIV

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed that Cuba is officially the first country to eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV (MTCT).

A new way of administering antiretroviral treatment could revolutionise the current way people living with HIV take treatment.

Men who have undergone circumcision are at increased risk of infecting female partners with HIV immediately following surgery suggests research from the Johns Hopkins University and the Rakai Health Sciences Program in Uganda.

People living with HIV who inject drugs have a 68% increase in the odds of refilling their antiretroviral treatment (ART) prescriptions after being exposed to opioid substitution therapy (OST)

Newly developed scanning techniques make it possible to identify where latent HIV is hiding in the body.

HIV infection, or inflammatory changes associated with HIV infection, are responsible for fat gain in people living with HIV (PLHIV) and on treatment, and not the antiretroviral treatment (ART) itself

As UNAIDS and UNICEF launch All In! on 17 February, a global initiative to reduce the unnecessary deaths of adolescents living with HIV, James Odongo reports on the realities faced by teens in Uganda.

People living with HIV (PLHIV) who are on antiretroviral treatment (ART) and have achieved viral suppression, still have a lower health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) than those in the general popula

People living with HIV (PLHIV) who are on antiretroviral treatment (ART) and have achieved viral suppression, still have a lower health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) than those in the general popula

A new study has found that mothers living with HIV in South Africa often discontinue HIV care after their child is born and has tested negative for HIV, because they perceive their own health as unimportant.

Organisations operating in countries with a high HIV prevalence are increasingly making efforts to tackle the epidemic and develop strategies to reduce workers risk of HIV

July 28th is World Hepatitis Day, which aims to raise awareness of viral hepatitis around the world.

Amivi*, 27, who is living with HIV, has been going to the one Save the Children’s health facility in Nimule every day to receive free antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.

The importance of HIV sensitive social protection programmes has been emphasised in a recent report published by the International Labour Organisation (ILO)