By Morris DC Komakech Government policies and spending key to achieving an HIV-free generation The debate about a prospective HIV-free generation given the advent of WHO Option B+ attracts attention. Further probing of the idea may expose it as a distant utopia. To have an HIV-free generation, our communities must …
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By Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Margie McGlynn Researchers are learning a great deal from the responses of three groups of patients An ounce of prevention, Benjamin Franklin famously said, is worth a pound of cure. But that is not always true when it comes to research into infectious diseases. Though scientists …
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By Angella Abushedde The US government says it will continue funding the health sector. Director of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr Thomas Freiden who was in the country for a four-day tour of the US Mission health projects said that the US government was committed to …
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By Morris Komakech The healthcare system requires restructuring to treat the community more than the individual A cloud of gloom has descended upon Uganda as global experts fear that the country is losing the gains it made in the early years in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Over the years, experts …
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By Henry Zakumumpa Thousands of Ugandan lives at stake after generic HIV/AIDS drugs deadline extension snub The lives of thousands of Ugandans enrolled on HIV treatment hang in the balance after an application by poor countries to extend the deadline for manufacture of generic AIDS drugs was rejected by the …
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By Agencies Scientists develop vaccine they say can temporarily brakes HIV A team of Spanish researchers say they have developed a therapeutic vaccine that can temporarily brake growth of the HIV virus in infected patients. The vaccine, based on immune cells exposed to HIV that had been inactivated with heat, …
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By Ronald Musoke As the world strives to get to zero infections, Ugandans are getting a confusing message on interventions As World AIDS Day (Dec. 1) was this year marked with increased optimism across the globe, in Uganda a persistent decade-long rise in new infections and prevalence is causing panic …
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By Sarah Namulondo Addressing a press conference yesterday at media centre Dr. Acheng Jane Ruth, the director general health services made the statement after journalists demanded for the names and pictures of patients at Mulago hospital to illustrate how bad the situation was. In frustration Acheng said that if she …
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By Henry Zakumumpa The delay in reforming a critical Bill in parliament may render AIDS drugs in Uganda illegal We no longer fear AIDS. Eddagala gyelili e Mulago (drugs are available at Mulago Hospital),” says Ssenkindu Moses, 32, who tells me he has had three sexual partners in the last …
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