Underpaid and abused – the plight
of domestic workers
Tens of millions of women and girls around the world are employed as domestic workers in private households. They clean,...
Underpaid and abused – the plight
Managing HIV Pain Feedback:
People living with HIV often experience chronic, or long-term, pain. However, the direct causes of this pain vary. Determining the...
Covid-19 and HIV
For now, no evidence to show that people with HIV are at greater risk of coronavirus This is according to...
Are covid-19 vaccines safe for people living with HIV?
Recently there has been some scaremongering about the Australian Covid-19 CSL vaccine which was found to be giving trial participants...
On Australian failed Covid-19 vaccine
The media is awash with reports on Covid-19 vaccines from Russia, China, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and countries like the United Kingdom...
The HIV testing gap: Poorer and less educated Africans still missing out
Despite intensified efforts to increase HIV-testing in sub-Saharan Africa, poorer and less educated people are still missing out. An analysis...
The HIV testing gap: Poorer and less educated Africans still missing out
Despite intensified efforts to increase HIV-testing in sub-Saharan Africa, poorer and less educated people are still missing out. An analysis...
Simplified dosage of HIV medicine for children
Children living with HIV can now benefit from an adapted, simpler combination therapy. In combination therapy, two or three medicines...
MoH, are we going to run out of ARVs?
UNaids recently published an article describing stocks of medication for HIV patients could run out in the next two months,...
PTSD in people with HIV
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is something you only tend to hear in the movies particularly about American soldiers who have...
Top 5 cure stories presented at the CROI 2020
HIV researchers present some of the most important and cutting-edge studies each year at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic...
HIV and menstrual health
The aunties and elder women are cringing right now…how she could publish such a topic. These things are private and...
HIV undetectable and breastfeeding
It is widely accepted that there is no risk of sexual transmission of HIV if you have an undetectable viral...
Stopping the spread of antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance is accelerated by the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, as well as poor infection prevention and control. However,...
Popping antibiotics ngati ma sweet!
We have a crisis that very few are taking seriously and if we don’t do something about it soon our...
Circumcision programmes can protect gay men from HIV
They are often a neglected and underserved group but men who have sex with men need to be considered as...
Are we closer to a cure for HIV?
Human beings are super smart…look at how far we have come in this world…how many things we have cured and...
That sugar daddy has HIV
that….”In 1908, Adolph Spreckels, heir to the Spreckels’ sugar fortune (along with his brother), married a woman 24 years his...
Drug interactions
Medicines help us feel better and stay healthy. But, sometimes drug interactions can cause problems. There are three types of...
Children born with HIV
Children born with HIV accessing treatment, have no significant difference in their movement skills, social interaction, language skills or practical...
