As part of the effort towards the commemoration of the World AIDS Day, the management of Flour Mills Nigeria (FMN) Plc has cautioned its employees about their lifestyles in discriminating and stigmatisatising at the workplace

No fewer than 47children and adolescents died daily from AIDS-related causes in 2018, according to a global snapshot on children, HIV, and AIDS released by UNICEF in advance of World AIDS Day.

Winnie Karagwa Byanyima is the new Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS). The United Nations Secretary-General appointed her as the Executive Director of UNAIDS on August 14, 2019

As the world marks the 2019 World Aids Day today, stigmatisation and discrimination against Persons Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) remain the twin factors frustrating a successful fight against the dreaded scourge.

At the moment, we can say that the country’s situation regarding the fight against Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is good.

The southeast geo-political zone has a national Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence rate of 1.9, which is above the national average of 1.4.

ABBOTT Laboratories, a medical devices and health care company in Illinois, United States (U.S.), has announced that a team of its scientists have identified a new sub-type of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), called HIV-1 Group M, subtype L.

A recent study has demonstrated how thrombosis claims more lives than Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), breast and prostate cancer and motor vehicle crashes combined.

Worried that no fewer than 50 per cent of patients on admission in Nigerian hospitals may develop thrombosis, medical experts have called for prevention strategy to the medical condition, which is the leading cause of mortality worldwide and responsible for one in four hospital deaths.

An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos yesterday remanded a 52-year-old man, Akinbode Ogunseinde, in Kirikiri Prisons for allegedly defiling his neighbour’s daughter. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Olufunke Sule-Amzat, refused to listen to the defendant’s plea and ordered that he be remanded in prison until Nov. 28 pending the Director of Public Prosecution’s advice. The…

I’ve been positive for 2 years, I was shocked when the doctor said, ‘Deborah, you’re HIV positive’, I was devastated. The doctor counseled me and asked me if I wanted to tell my family about my status. She later enrolled me in a private clinic which I requested because of privacy.

Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel has debunked reports published by some bodies about the state’s high prevalence rate in Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and out-of-school children cases.