Anonymous STD Tests Offer Hope for Nigerians Facing a Global Crisis

3 weeks, 6 days ago

HIV is spiking in new hot spots. Here's what's being done to control it

NPR

HIV is spiking in new hot spots. "We used to call hidden and growing, but now they are saying it's fast and furious," says Dr. Loyd Norella, who manages the HIV program at the Pilipinas Shell Foundation — the foundation arm of the energy and petroleum company Shell Philippines, part of Shell Global. In the Philippines: 'I didn't want that …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Karnataka records dip in AIDS infection rate, says Gundu Rao

New Indian Express

Karnataka has 433 Family Counselling and Testing Centres and 2,592 Integrated Testing Centres, where free HIV testing and counselling services are provided. These centres and camps offered tests for conditions like tuberculosis, hepatitis B and C, and sexually transmitted infections, alongside HIV testing. Reflecting on the special ‘Test and Treat’ initiative, introduced in 2017, Gundu Rao said it continues to …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

15-month pregnant woman: New-age fertility scam in Nigeria explained

Deccan Chronicle

A disturbing pregnancy scam exploiting desperate women to conceive was recently brought to light by an investigation, carried out by BBC Africa Eye. A shocking fertility Scam in Nigeria has been exposed, in which illegal clinics exploit vulnerable women through false pregnancies and baby trafficking. When the health authorities raided one such clinic, they found many pregnant women who were …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Experts say a twice-yearly injection that offers 100% protection against HIV is 'stunning'

Hindustan Times

CE TOWN, South Africa — Twice-yearly shots used to treat AIDS were 100% effective in preventing new infections in women, according to study results published Wednesday. Experts say a twice-yearly injection that offers 100% protection against HIV is 'stunning' There were no infections in the young women and girls that got the shots in a study of about 5,000 in …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Experts say a twice-yearly injection that offers 100% protection against HIV is ‘stunning’

Associated Press

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Twice-yearly shots used to treat AIDS were 100% effective in preventing new infections in women, according to study results published Wednesday. The prospect of a twice-a-year shot is “quite revolutionary news” for our patients, said Thandeka Nkosi, who helped run the Gilead research at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation in Masiphumelele, South Africa. “Gilead has …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

HIV/AIDS: Key interventions and progress so far

The Hindu

From July 22 to July 26, Munich plays host to AIDS 2024, the 25th International AIDS Conference, also accessible virtually to participants across the globe. A recent report revealed that between the 1970s and 1990s, more than 30,000 people were infected with HIV, Hepatitis C and Hepatitis B after receiving contaminated blood and blood products imported from the U.S. — …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Young gay Latinos see a rising share of new HIV cases, leading to a call for targeted funding

LA Times

Four months after seeking asylum in the U.S., Fernando Hermida began coughing and feeling tired. While African Americans continue to have the highest HIV rates in the United States overall, Latinos made up the largest share of new HIV diagnoses and infections among gay and bisexual men in 2022, per the most recent data available, compared with other racial and …

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1 year, 1 month ago

UN confirms sexual spread of mpox in Congo for the 1st time as country sees a record outbreak

The Hindu

The World Health Organization said it has confirmed sexual transmission of mpox in Congo for the first time as the country experiences its biggest-ever outbreak, a worrying development that African scientists warn could make it more difficult to stop the disease. “This is the first definitive proof of sexual transmission of monkeypox in Africa,” Oyewale Tomori, a Nigerian virologist who …

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1 year, 1 month ago

UN confirms sexual spread of mpox in Congo for the 1st time as country sees a record outbreak

Associated Press

LONDON — The World Health Organization said it has confirmed sexual transmission of mpox in Congo for the first time as the country experiences its biggest-ever outbreak, a worrying development that African scientists warn could make it more difficult to stop the disease. “This is the first definitive proof of sexual transmission of monkeypox in Africa,” Oyewale Tomori, a Nigerian …

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1 year, 1 month ago

WHO confirms monkeypox spreads sexually in DR Congo amid outbreak

Al Jazeera

The health agency’s confirmation comes amid a monkeypox outbreak in the DRC and a concerning lack of vaccines in Africa. The World Health Organization said it has confirmed sexual transmission of monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the first time as the country’s experiences its biggest-ever outbreak, a worrying development that African scientists warn could make it more …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Mass Arrests Target LGBTQ+ People In Nigeria As LGBTQ Abuses Are Ignored, Activists Say

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING ABUJA, Nigeria — Law enforcement authorities in Nigeria are using the country’s same-sex prohibition law to target the LGBTQ+ community while ignoring abuses against them, rights groups and lawyers say, in the wake of fresh mass arrests of gay people. The country’s paramilitary agency on Monday announced the arrest of more than 70 young people – 59 …

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1 year, 4 months ago

STDs have been on the rise. Who should pick up the tab for testing?

LA Times

Inside the glassy waiting room of a Hollywood clinic, a 33-year-old man sat and listened for his number to be called over the beats of a Mariah Carey song. “You don’t want people in your business.” For months, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been resisting a push from Los Angeles County for such providers to ask people if they have …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Continue COVID-19 testing to check emergence of new virus variants: WHO chief

The Hindu

Warning that many countries aren’t testing enough and that new SARS-CoV-2 virus variants may emerge, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, on Wednesday said that testing and being vigilant is vital in continuing the fight against COVID-19. “While COVID is now behind us and India did its best during the time, we can expect new and more …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Sexually transmitted diseases on the rise, says health institute

Dutch News

The number of sexually transmitted diseases in the Netherlands is growing and antibiotics may no longer be able to combat some diseases, health institute RIVM has warned. The use of condoms has been going down among the young, who make up the most sexually active group, for years but 2022 was a peak year for infections among this group, particularly …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Sexually transmitted diseases on the rise, says health institute

Dutch News

The number of sexually transmitted diseases in the Netherlands is growing and antibiotics may no longer be able to combat some diseases, health institute RIVM has warned. The use of condoms has been going down among the young, who make up the most sexually active group, for years but 2022 was a peak year for infections among this group, particularly …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Health services handing out condoms due to increased STI diagnoses

NL Times

The number of STIs in the Netherlands is increasing, and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment is concerned. In the coming weeks, the RIVM and municipal health services GGDs will therefore be handing out over 40,000 condoms at festivals and during introduction weeks at higher education institutions, with the message: give love, not an STI. “People may …

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1 year, 6 months ago

New malaria vaccine offers a ray of hope to Nigeria. There's just one thing ...

NPR

New malaria vaccine offers a ray of hope to Nigeria. Enlarge this image toggle caption Emma Houston/Xinhua via Getty Images Emma Houston/Xinhua via Getty Images On April 17, 2023, Nigeria approved a promising new malaria vaccine. Sponsor Message Indeed, "long travel times" was listed by one study in Nigeria as one of the most frequent reasons deterring parents from getting …

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2 years, 2 months ago

‘HELP’ sensitises Prakasam villagers on HIV and social stigma

The Hindu

Prema kept away from testing for HIV and AIDS due to social stigma associated with the disease. Thanks to intervention by the HELP, in collaboration with the Andhra Pradesh State AIDS Control Society, she has not only undergone the tests but also taking the anti-retroviral therapy, says HELP Intervention Group Project Director B.V. Sagar. ‘’We are persuading the vulnerable section …

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2 years, 5 months ago

There’s a Monkeypox Testing Bottleneck

Wired

When the first case of monkeypox was confirmed in the United States, the country’s public health laboratories had the ability to run 6,000 tests per week. “If you don't have a test result, you don't have evidence of your condition.” Testing has since expanded to around 80,000 tests per week, after five large commercial laboratories partnered with the federal government …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Rule Out HIV, Hepatitis, Syphilis: Pune's Mylab Pushes Govt, Blood Banks to Adopt NAT-tested Transfusions

News 18

As Covid-19 seems to be fading away, India’s first company to manufacture RT-PCR test kits is gearing up to take on the next goal, the top official of Mylab Discovery Solutions told News18.com in an exclusive interaction. The Pune-based biotech company – that became the first Indian firm to make and sell RT-PCR testing kits and Covid home testing kits …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Kenyan queer men risk health amid homophobia in public hospitals

Al Jazeera

Gay people in Kenya say they would rather try risky alternative treatments than suffer humiliation at public hospitals. With homophobia all around them, gay people like Ndiretu and Onyango in Kenya are shunning government hospitals and resorting to unconventional methods of treating sexually transmitted infections. Its director Peter Njane told Al Jazeera that organisations like his are a relief to …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Two decades later, Nigeria’s health insurance is still flailing

Al Jazeera

Most Nigerians, especially rural dwellers, often go without adequate healthcare or insurance. “A hospital is more likely to trust that a private HMO would be more responsive in paying for the services that their enrollees have accessed rather than the NHIS considering the bureaucracy they have to go through.” A rusty model Industry stakeholders also say politicians and administrators have …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Bihar’s Grim Picture of People With HIV; Despite Dip in Cases, State Ranks Third After Maha, UP: Report

News 18

Bihar ranks third, after Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, in people living with HIV, with around 8,000 new cases recorded annually, a report by Hindustan Times showed, quoting Dr S Siddhartha Shankar Reddy, health specialist of UNICEF Bihar. Despite a 27% dip in PLHIV cases, most youngsters, including gay men, intravenous drug users, men who have sex with men accounted for …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Amsterdam, Utrecht struggling with long waitlists for HIV prevention pills

NL Times

At the GGD in Amsterdam and Utrecht, hundreds of people are on the waitlist for HIV prevention pills and some have reportedly become infected while waiting, according to AT5. In Amsterdam, the waitlist for the GGD's PrEP program stretches to 500 people and the program has been full since last autumn, said the head of the Center for Sexual Health. …

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2 years, 10 months ago

At long last, WHO issues coronavirus testing advice

LA Times

A woman is tested for a coronavirus infection at the Lenasia South Hospital near Johannesburg in South Africa. The advice comes months after critics said the lack of recommendations from the global health agency was compromising efforts to stop the pandemic in poor countries. At a press briefing on Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the agency was concerned …

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2 years, 10 months ago

New Biden pandemic plan: Closer to normal for the nation

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — It’s time for America to stop letting the coronavirus “dictate how we live,” President Joe Biden’s White House declared Wednesday, outlining a strategy to allow people to return to many normal activities safely after two years of pandemic disruptions. A White House official said the “test-to-treat” plan would initially roll out in hundreds of pharmacies across the country, …

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2 years, 10 months ago

‘Widespread disruption’ of STD testing has begun due to the lack of blood sample tubes

The Independent

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2 years, 10 months ago

Self-testing to play a greater role: OMT advice

Dutch News

The Outbreak Management Team has suggested giving more priority to self-testing in future, while slowly winding down public health institute testing capacity. In documentation supporting its latest advice to the Dutch government, the OMT says that ‘individual responsibility’ will play a greater role, although the country should ‘not reduce the regional health board testing infrastructure too quickly.’ Short-term, it advises, …

Test Ggd Omt Advice

2 years, 10 months ago

Self-testing to play a greater role: OMT advice

Dutch News

The Outbreak Management Team has suggested giving more priority to self-testing in future, while slowly winding down public health institute testing capacity. In documentation supporting its latest advice to the Dutch government, the OMT says that ‘individual responsibility’ will play a greater role, although the country should ‘not reduce the regional health board testing infrastructure too quickly.’ Short-term, it advises, …

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2 years, 11 months ago

This Nigerian doctor has a tough new job: Stopping the next pandemic before it strikes

NPR

This Nigerian doctor has a tough new job: Stopping the next pandemic before it strikes Enlarge this image toggle caption Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters Chikwe Ihekweazu has taken on one of the toughest jobs in global health — leader of the new World Health Organization Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. The goal is to improve WHO's ability "to forecast, …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Covidtests.gov is off to a strong start but big hurdle awaits

CNN

Editor’s Note: David M. Perry is a journalist and historian and co-author of “The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe.” He is a senior academic adviser in the history department of the University of Minnesota. CNN — The Tuesday news that the Biden administration’s free rapid Covid-19 test site had gone online a day early, part of a …

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3 years ago

Self-test kits could lead to unreported cases, warn officials

Hindustan Times

A surge in the demand for Covid-19 self-testing kits has raised concerns about underreporting of cases even as health officials termed these kits “a boon” as they have taken a significant load off the traditional Covid-19 testing infrastructure amid the fifth wave of the pandemic in the city. Chemist associations in the city said the demand for self-test kits has …

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3 years ago

Biden administration to distribute 500 million at-home Covid-19 test kits

Live Mint

WASHINGTON : The Biden administration will distribute 500 million free at-home Covid-19 testing kits to Americans and take steps to deploy federal medical personnel to overburdened hospitals this winter, as the Omicron variant spreads around the country. Mr. Biden is expected to stress that Americans should take the Omicron variant seriously but shouldn’t panic, according to administration officials. Mr. Biden …

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3 years, 2 months ago

NL residents less willing to get tested when they have Covid symptoms

NL Times

Despite the number of coronavirus infections in the Netherlands skyrocketing in the past weeks, the willingness among Netherlands residents to get tested if they have symptoms is dwindling. And a survey by public health institute RIVM showed that only 40 percent of respondents with Covid-19 symptoms went to get tested, NOS reports. "It is so important to go to the …

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3 years, 2 months ago

WHO-led program aims to buy antiviral Covid-19 pills for $10

CNN

A World Health Organization-led program to ensure poorer countries get fair access to Covid-19 vaccines, tests and treatments aims to secure antiviral drugs for patients with mild symptoms for as little as $10 per course, a draft document seen by Reuters says. The document, which outlines the goals of the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator until September next year, says …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Commercial Covid test sites to start offering rapid STI testing

NL Times

With demand for coronavirus testing expected to decline as more and more people are vaccinated, commercial test sites are looking for other ways to stay relevant and in business. Multiple test companies are looking into offering rapid tests for sexually transmitted infections, BNR reports after speaking to these companies. "The process looks Snelkliniek plans to offer STI tests in the …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Opinion: I'm Nigerian. I'm Vaccinated. Europe Won't Let Me In

NPR

Europe Won't Let Me In Enlarge this image toggle caption Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images I'm fully vaccinated. COVAX, the vaccine distribution program co-led by the World Health Organization, has distributed more than 89 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Those brick walls are part …

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3 years, 7 months ago

COVID-19 derailed HIV fight by monopolising health workers and resources, say experts

Firstpost

Before COVID-19, health officials were celebrating how new medicines and other developments had gradually tamed HIV. Some researchers believe COVID-19 has derailed the fight against HIV, siphoning away health workers and other resources and setting back a US campaign to decimate the AIDS epidemic by 2030. Before COVID-19, health officials were celebrating how new medicines and other developments had gradually …

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3 years, 9 months ago

COVID testing blitz undermined screening, fight against STDs

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Testing for diseases like chlamydia and gonorrhea plummeted in …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Goa May Set Up Own Lab to Test New Covid-19 Strain as NIV Pune Delays Sample Results

News 18

In the wake of spurt in cases of the new Covid-19 variant and a delay in its identification by the National Institute of Virology in Pune, the Goa government is mulling to set up its own genome sequencing lab. So I was discussing that we should explore the possibility to see how we can set up genome testing facilities in …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Will the US ever have a national COVID-19 testing strategy?

Associated Press

NEW YORK — As the coronavirus epidemic worsens, U.S. health experts hope Joe Biden’s administration will put in place something Donald Trump’s has not — a comprehensive national testing strategy. “If we’d had a more robust approach and testing was scaled up as one of the tools, I think much of this third surge would have been avoidable,” said Dr. …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Mizoram Launches 'Love Brigade' to Create HIV/AIDS Awareness, Distributes Free Condoms to Public

News 18

On World AIDS day on December 1, close to 500 taxi and bike riders took part in an awareness drive where they undertook to distribute free condoms to passengers. Initiated by the Mizoram State AIDS Control Society and AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the drive kickstarted in the capital city of Aizwal. The Mizoram State AIDS Control Society ’s data reported the …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Covid response has shown world can end Aids as public health threat, say experts

The Independent

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4 years, 2 months ago

Commercial centres carry out thousands of coronavirus tests a day

Dutch News

More than one third of the coronavirus tests carried out in the Netherlands at present are being done by commercial testing centres, not those set up by the 25 regional health boards, according to research by current affairs television show EenVandaag. There are now some 200 private test centres operating in the Netherlands, and, together with in-company initiatives, they were …

Testing Centres

4 years, 2 months ago

This finger-prick Covid-19 test kit could cost as little as $1

CNN

CNN — For the first time since the Covid-19 outbreak began, Africa may be poised to reshape rapid testing for the virus on the continent. CNN Senegal's test kits will first be distributed to public health authorities, with a goal to eventually become available to the general public for testing at home. CNN Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, also recently …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Nigerian scientists develop cheaper and faster Covid-19 test kits

CNN

CNN — Scientists in Nigeria have developed a cheaper and faster Covid-19 test kit that will enable testing to be ramped up in a place that has faced kit shortages and chronic under-testing of a massive population, according to the country’s health authorities. Although Salako added that the detection rate of the NIMR test kit is “a bit lower than …

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4 years, 3 months ago

As rich nations struggle, Africa's virus response is praised

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In an interview with The Associated Press, he didn’t …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus in Africa: Nigeria has tested less than 1% of its population. Here’s why.

CNN

Lagos, Nigeria CNN — More than one million people in Africa have been infected with the novel coronavirus but health experts say the numbers do not give a “full picture” of the outbreak on the continent. Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, of the World Health Organization, said the cases are a small fraction of the global count but low testing in many …

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4 years, 5 months ago

African nation blasts ‘inequality crisis’ in virus testing

Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG — Central African Republic’s health minister is blasting the “big inequality crisis” in coronavirus testing as he sees rich countries like Britain conduct scores of thousands of tests daily while his own struggles to obtain supplies for a couple hundred at most. Pierre Somse told a World Health Organization briefing Thursday that “we are in a scarcity, a misery …

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4 years, 6 months ago

Noem vaunts hands-off virus approach; testing draws concern

Associated Press

— South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Wednesday doubled-down on her hands-off approach to the coronavirus pandemic by pointing to the state’s low hospitalization numbers, and cast doubt on key recommendations from public health officials like wearing a mask. Noem has said repeatedly that “science, facts and data” lead her decisions, but that appears to come down to a single …

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