HIV
-
World
In COVID’s shadow, HIV on march in Eastern Europe
BUCHAREST: In a Bucharest back street, drug addicts rush towards an ambulance handing out free syringes. While the eyes of…
Read More » -
Health
HIV campaign tackles sex taboos in S Sudan
JUBA: In Andrew Makech’s home village near Rumbek in central South Sudan, few have ever heard of a condom, and…
Read More » -
Health
Morocco makes headway against HIV but societal stigma remains
CASABLANCA: In Morocco, the struggle against HIV has been so successful in recent years that campaigners worry about losing funding…
Read More » -
Kuwait
Maid deported after testing positive for HIV
KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Manpower said an Asian domestic helper was deported back to her country after she tested…
Read More » -
Subcontinent
600 test HIV positive in Pakistan city
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said yesterday over 600 people, most of them children, had tested HIV positive in a city in southern…
Read More » -
Kuwait
1.2 million people tested for AIDS in 2018
KUWAIT:The Ministry of Health (MoH) subjected 1.2 million people to AIDS tests in 2018, assistant undersecretary for general health and…
Read More » -
Health
90 infected by HIV syringe in Pakistan
KARACHI: At least 90 people, including 65 children, are believed to have been infected with the HIV virus in Pakistan…
Read More » -
Kuwait
Number of people taking HIV tests rising in Kuwait
KUWAIT: The health ministry’s assistant undersecretary for general health and the head of the national committee to fight AIDS Dr…
Read More » -
Asia
Singapore vows to prosecute American over HIV data leak
SINGAPORE: Singapore vowed yesterday it will bring back and prosecute an American man accused of leaking data on thousands of…
Read More » -
Asia
US citizen leaks data on HIV positive people in Singapore
SINGAPORE: An HIV-positive American has leaked online the names of 14,200 Singaporeans and foreigners also diagnosed in the city-state with…
Read More »