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HIV may be evolving to become less deadly
As the virus adapts to the human immune system in order to survive longer, it weakens its own ability to cause disease, according to new research.
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Dec 2nd 2014, 8:01 AM
Opinion: Healthcare apartheid is unacceptable – there can be no 'them and us'
Solutions do not come easy, but Ebola transmission can be stopped.
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Dec 1st 2014, 8:00 AM
Average age of HIV diagnosis for gay and bisexual men has fallen to 32
Committee on Health and Children today, who will be focusing on advances in testing opportunities for HIV and enhancing engagement with health services,
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Nov 27th 2014, 7:30 AM
Poverty, violence and myths about condoms: What's spreading HIV?
In South Africa, more than 6 million of the country’s 52 million population are HIV positive.
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Sep 28th 2014, 8:45 AM
Kenyan men flee to escape enforced circumcision
The procedure is often carried out without anaesthesia.
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Aug 11th 2014, 7:15 PM
Bob Geldof on return to work: 'It turns out that I can do this shit'
“Sometimes, I mean, the needle twitches slightly, so you continue doing it,” the bereaved father said today.
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Jul 24th 2014, 10:43 AM
Decriminalising prostitution would 'slash HIV rates among sex workers'
Some sex workers don’t carry condoms, to avoid arrest. This is a big problem.
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Jul 22nd 2014, 6:45 AM
Opinion: 'It's a terrible blow to Aids research – and not the first time lives have been needlessly lost'
More research into Aids would help to protect the most vulnerable groups in society and also honour those who have died.
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Jul 21st 2014, 7:30 PM
100 AIDS experts were killed in the Ukraine plane crash
They were on their way to a global conference in Australia.
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Jul 18th 2014, 11:59 AM
Death rates for HIV-positive adults have halved
However, the risk of death from non-AIDS cancers remained stable.
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Jul 18th 2014, 7:30 AM
Baby 'cured' of HIV has relapsed
The news is a setback to hopes that very early treatment with powerful HIV drugs might reverse the infection.
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Jul 11th 2014, 7:15 AM
Researcher arrested after faking data for a HIV vaccine
The scientist confessed to spiking samples of blood to make a HIV vaccine appear to have great promise.
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Jun 25th 2014, 4:00 PM
'Once you say you're HIV positive, you can't take it back'
HIV in Ireland: screening, stigma and support
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Jun 8th 2014, 7:30 AM
Panti: "As someone who is HIV positive, I would encourage everybody to get tested"
A study has found that the vast majority of gay men see the risk of contracting HIV as unlikely, even as diagnosis rates have increased.
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Jun 4th 2014, 10:23 AM
Opinion: Equality and social justice for women is my life’s work
In the run-up to Africa Day, Salome Mbugua discusses her social justice work in Ireland and various African countries.
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May 23rd 2014, 1:00 PM
Alcohol kills more than AIDS, tuberculosis and violence combined - WHO
This equates to one death every 10 seconds.
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May 12th 2014, 2:22 PM
Column: A vaccine could soon be here for one of the most devastating diseases on the planet
With malaria causing 627,000 deaths last year, there are high hopes for the first vaccine. But old-fashioned people power can also make a difference.
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Apr 25th 2014, 7:15 AM
Fishermen blamed for huge number of HIV cases in Ugandan village
The going rate for sex in Kasensero is as little as €1.50.
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Apr 24th 2014, 8:15 AM
Buttimer: HIV awareness campaign needed as memory of epidemic fades
The Fine Gael TD said the stark rises in cases over the past decade needs to be addressed.
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Apr 9th 2014, 12:33 PM
Email and drop-in service to support sexual health in gay community
The Gay Switchboard is also hoping to launch a video chat service next year to encourage younger people who are having issues to get in touch.
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Dec 7th 2013, 8:45 AM
Is Ireland doing enough to help the global fight against AIDS?
Charities say Ireland has traditionally been at the forefront, but on World AIDS Day they say that support is slipping.
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Dec 1st 2013, 8:00 AM
Undiagnosed HIV rates high in Dublin, widespread testing recommended
A new testing programme at the Mater Hospital diagnosed almost three in every 1,000 people with the HIV infection.
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Nov 29th 2013, 12:41 PM
Campaign to reduce stigma, as stats show 50 per cent of HIV diagnoses are happening late
Latest figures from the World Health Organisation show that 1 in 3 of the 2.3 million people living with the condition in Europe are unaware that they are HIV positive.
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Nov 23rd 2013, 8:45 AM
Top scientists meet to discuss how a cure for AIDS can become a reality
Scientists said for a cure to work, it must be safe, simple and scalable.
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Nov 9th 2013, 7:15 AM
Scientists meet to discuss ending the world's AIDS pandemic
The symposium next month will look at what can be done to achieve an AIDS-free world.
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Oct 10th 2013, 7:30 AM
This HIV vaccine looks promising
The vaccine appears to have completely cleared the virus from monkeys.
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Sep 11th 2013, 10:29 PM
Study finds 42 children in Ireland diagnosed with HIV
The research in the Irish Medical Journal found many of the children’s illnesses were diagnosed at an advanced stage.
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Aug 17th 2013, 8:15 AM
A daily tablet can protect those who inject drugs from HIV
Globally, one in 10 new HIV infections are thought to be caused by injecting drug use.
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Jun 13th 2013, 6:15 AM
Drug users need our compassion, says Elton John
Pop star says stigma and criminalisation increases chance that users get caught in lifetime cycle of addiction and disease.
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Jun 8th 2013, 5:00 PM
The median age for new HIV cases in Ireland? 33
New statistics show that the number of people with HIV in Ireland rose last year for the first time in four years.
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Jun 8th 2013, 7:00 AM
Baby born with HIV may have been cured, scientists say
The child from Mississippi has been off medication for a year with no signs of infection in what could be on the second reported curing of the disease.
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Mar 4th 2013, 8:46 AM
Infidelity is a major cause of Africa's HIV epidemic - study
The study found that up to two thirds of all new HIV infections among men in stable partnerships are caused by one partner being unfaithful.
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Feb 5th 2013, 7:15 AM
Here's how Ireland distributed €159m among nine countries last year
The amount was 12 per cent less than the nearly €180 million given to countries including Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Timor Leste and Vietnam in 2011.
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Jan 19th 2013, 3:56 PM
Scientists say vaccine temporarily puts brakes on HIV
Team in Spain says it is best indication yet that a ‘therapeutic vaccine’ might be possible in place of anti-retroviral drugs.
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Jan 4th 2013, 6:40 AM
Column: Why are we getting complacent with our sexual health?
We should know by now that having unprotected sex is not safe, writes Anna Quigley – so why are we engaging in risky sexual behaviour?
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Dec 21st 2012, 6:55 AM
World Aids Day: Elimination of HIV and Aids blocked by 'poverty and complacency'
Although global rates of are dropping, complacency is a barrier to completely eliminating HIV, according to experts.
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Dec 1st 2012, 7:30 AM
Naked protesters occupy Washington office over possible AIDS cuts
Activists occupied the office of House speaker John Boehner ahead of World AIDS Day this Saturday.
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Nov 28th 2012, 10:17 AM
Super-sensitive test lets doctors see disease without microscope
The new test uses nano-particles to spot markers for cancer or the AIDS virus in human blood serum using the naked eye.
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Oct 28th 2012, 6:16 PM
New book documents the rise in pandemic diseases and wonders what's next
The book ‘Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic’ tracks previous pandemics and attempts to determine what the next one will be.
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Oct 9th 2012, 12:15 PM
Hillary Clinton hopes for improved drones to find Kony
The US Secretary General was also focused on preserving a fragile peace between Sudan and South Sudan on her two day agenda of talks in East Africa.
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Aug 3rd 2012, 6:36 PM
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