The global health challenges caused by poor quality medicines and approaches to achieving quality-assured medicines in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) like Nigeria has remained a huge burden.

I believe that I am not alone in feeling distressed about the situation of healthcare in Nigeria. Everywhere you look, the problems stare you on the face. In the public health care space, you face poor infrastructure, old or inoperative equipment and generally, poor attitude. Even skill and competency levels are often suspect. If you have…

Stakeholders at a media screening of “keep the promise” to AIDS video campaign by Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, have appealed to the government to increase public sector funding for HIV. They said that it takes just N20 billion to put 50 per cent of People Living with HIV on yearly treatment. Director-General of the…

A group of scientists at Texas Biomedical Research Institute, United States (U.S.), have zeroed in on a new defense against Human Immuno-deficiency Virus type one (HIV-1), the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Led by Dr. Ruth Ruprecht, the team used an animal model to show for the first time that an antibody…

A mutated strain of Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) spotted in Canada is driving sufferers to develop Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) quicker than usual, a study reveals. The strain is circulating in Saskatchewan, where 80 percent of people diagnosed with the illness are Indigenous. Doctors started reporting alarmingly rapid declines among patients in 2016, when…

A new report has disclosed that Nigeria is one of the 50 countries in the world where new HIV infections are rising. The report by the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS), said more than half of Nigerians (51 per cent) bears the burden of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in West and Central…

Every three minutes, a girl between the ages of 15 and 19 is infected with the virus that causes AIDS, said a UN report Wednesday that warned of a "crisis" fuelled by gender inequality.

Celebrities from actress Charlize Theron and pop star Elton John to Britain's Prince Harry will call for action on the second day of a world AIDS assembly in Amsterdam Tuesday, as concerns grow over an HIV surge in some parts of the world. Some 15,000 delegates -- researchers, campaigners, activists and people living with the…

Scientists have made giant strides towards the global target of ending Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) by 2030.

Ahead of the World Blood Donor Day (WBDD), which is marked every June 14, medical experts, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the World...

Three people living with AIDS in Gambia are suing former president Yahya Jammeh, alleging he detained and abused them as guinea pigs to test his supposed cure, one of their lawyers said.

Despite recent setbacks in efforts to eliminate malaria globally by 2030, experts are optimistic that the mosquito-borne disease could be wipe out from the surface of the Earth sooner than later. Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes but it is…