Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
12/5/2023 9:24:22 PM
Alyaa Abu Shahba interviews HIV patients in Egypt about the social stigma that is still attached to the virus on the occasion of World AIDS Day
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Life & Style
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Health
9/11/2023 12:02:13 PM
PEPFAR program is endangered, which officials say has saved 25 million lives in 55 countries from Ukraine to Brazil to Indonesia. That includes the lives of 5.5 million infants born HIV-free.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/25/2023 10:29:50 AM
A man dubbed the "Geneva patient" is the latest person with HIV to be declared in long-term remission -- however he did not receive a transplant with a virus-blocking gene mutation like previous cases.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
6/27/2023 6:09:14 PM
Clad in a figure-hugging dress, Dineo gets into a fancy car driven by her sugar daddy, kissing her benefactor as her boyfriend Quinton watches miserably from a distance.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/11/2023 12:09:35 PM
A crucial first step was to develop tests as quickly as possible, both to diagnose patients and to demonstrate that HIV only infected AIDS patients.
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Egypt
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Health
2/26/2023 11:39:35 PM
An Egyptian presidential initiative that adds new medical tests to pre-marriage procedures, including tests for HIV and other infectious diseases, came into force on Sunday.
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Life & Style
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Health
2/20/2023 6:26:37 PM
A man known as "the Duesseldorf patient" has become the third person declared cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant that also treated his leukaemia, a study said on Monday.
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12/5/2022 3:14:44 PM
The National AIDS Control Program at Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population, in cooperation with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and with leading pharmaceutical company EVA Pharma, has launched a new campaign to fight discrimination against people infected with HIV and address societal fears around the disease.
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Egypt
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Health
12/2/2022 4:05:04 PM
There are currently 22,000 people living with AIDS in Egypt, the Egyptian Health Ministry announced on Thursday.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/21/2022 2:08:45 PM
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will hold a donor conference in New York, where it aims to raise at least US$18 billion during an event hosted by US President Joe Biden.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/13/2022 11:43:31 AM
The fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria has saved 50 million lives over the past 20 years, the Global Fund said.
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Egypt
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Health
8/10/2022 12:15:29 PM
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will provide Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population with a grant worth $11.2 million to support patients suffering from HIV and tuberculosis as well as to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/28/2022 11:15:46 AM
AIDS researchers announced on Wednesday that a fourth person has been "cured" of HIV, but the dangerous procedure for patients also battling cancer may be little comfort for the tens of millions living with the virus worldwide.
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Life & Style
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Health
4/14/2022 1:25:57 PM
An existing meningitis vaccine offers protection against gonorrhea, three studies said
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Life & Style
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Health
2/7/2022 11:05:15 AM
A new, “exceptionally virulent” strain of HIV has been discovered – but scientists stress there is “no cause for alarm”
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Egypt
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Health
12/2/2021 8:55:57 PM
Marking International AIDS Day, the Ministry of Health and Population announced that Egypt is witnessing a significant decrease in the rate of HIV infection, with a prevalence rate of less than one percent.
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Life & Style
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Health
11/17/2021 11:35:50 AM
Headlines were made from Argentina to all over the world as a native woman was announced to be miraculously cured from HIV.
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World
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Africa
10/18/2021 6:37:53 PM
South Africa's health products regulator on Monday said it would not approve Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine due to concerns it could increase the risk of HIV infection among men.
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Life & Style
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Health
6/20/2021 12:04:48 PM
More people than ever now have access to medications called antiretroviral therapy or ART, which when taken as prescribed, keeps down the amount of virus in their body
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Life & Style
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Health
5/23/2021 2:47:57 PM
That raises concern that HIV infection might blunt people's immune response to the virus - and to vaccines
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