Michel Sidibé: working to end AIDS as a public health threat
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Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, has the storyteller's persuasive powers. He recounts a turning point in his life, when he had been charged with responsibility by UNICEF for promoting immunisation in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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Prompt ART especially important for people with HIV aged 45 and over
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A study in the United States has found that people living with HIV aged 45 to 65, who start treatment with low CD4 counts – a measure of how healthy the immune system
is – have higher mortality rates than their younger counterparts.
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Cuba Becomes First Ever Country To Eliminate Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV
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Cuba has once again demonstrated that its outstanding health care system is something to admire and learn from, becoming the first country ever to receive World Health Organization (WHO) validation that it has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.
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Larry Kramer 'still has work to do' as film celebrates his life
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Larry Kramer's confrontational style has mellowed. Now 80, the playwright, novelist and AIDS activist, speaks softly and
looks almost frail in a big leather armchair in his New York apartment overlooking Washington Square Park.
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World must drastically accelerate AIDS efforts or face more HIV infections and deaths than five years ago
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Countries most affected by HIV must focus on stopping new HIV infections and expanding access to antiretroviral treatment
or risk the epidemic rebounding, urges a major new report from the UNAIDS and Lancet Commission.
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3rd Inter-regional Consultation on HIV - related Services and Rights
25-27 November 2015, Harare - Zimbabwe.
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