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- Valentines’ Day Love Chats with AfNHi Youths On 14 February 2020, Valentine ’s Day, the AfNHi youth cohort ran a social media campaign to increase young people’s awareness on HIV prevention.… Read more
- HIV Vaccine Will Pay Huge Dividends- INVEST NOW! Of the estimated 36.7 million people living with HIV/AIDS globally in 2015, 25.6 million live in sub-Saharan Africa. Also, 1.37 million (65%) of 2.1… Read more
- Annual Report 2017 The global health landscape is changing. In less than two decades, the world has registered some of the most momentous advances against infectious diseases.… Read more
- Researchers focus on eight potential HIV vaccines, so far none promises gleam future Kenyan researchers are working on about eight potential HIV vaccines.None has shown efficacy, but scientists believe they are still potent if delivered efficiently into… Read more
- The African Civil Society Platform on Health and GFAN Africa Urge African and World Leaders to Urgently Address Drug Resistant TB Contact: Carol Nawina: carolnawina@gmail.com + 260 97 7960043 Rosemary Mburu: rosemary@wacihealth.org +254 711 308858 Emmanuel Etim: info@africahealthplatform.org + 251 912 623 935 Drug… Read more
- Netherlands’ Commendable Leadership in Women’s Health President Donald Trump has reinstated the Mexico City Policy – an abortion-related requirement prohibiting foreign non-governmental organizations that receive U.S. funding from using their… Read more
- Africa Must Increase Investments in Health, Now More than Ever A growing wave of nationalism is sweeping across the West and demanding a sharper focus on domestic issues and lesser engagement abroad. For global… Read more
- Africa CDC: Great Opportunity for New AU Chair to Transform Africa’s Health In February, Africa elected Chad’s Moussa Faki Mahamat as the new chairperson of the African Union Commission (AU) replacing South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. One… Read more
- Press Release Combating TB-HIV in South Africa World AIDS Day 2016 A new research report from ACTION shows that while countries have taken steps in the right direction to combat the deadly duo of TB and HIV,… Read more
- Accelerating research through funding, crucial to defeating AIDS Nairobi, May 17-18 2016. In commemoration of the 2016 World AIDS Vaccine Day, representative civil society groups from the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA)… Read more
- Hope and Momentum in Maputo The Mozambican city of Maputo, naturally endowed with one of the longest Indian Ocean coastline, is beautiful and inviting. Being in Mozambique the week… Read more
- Getting to zero the biomedical way in Africa: outcomes of deliberation at the 2013 Biomedical HIV Prevention Forum in Abuja, Nigeria Over the last few decades, biomedical HIV prevention research had engaged multiple African stakeholders. There have however been few platforms to enable regional stakeholders… Read more