Two thousand people are now on the waiting list for antiretroviral medication at Edendale Hospital, which stopped giving new patients ARVs nine weeks ago.

TWO directors of a local NGO are to serve five years imprisonment each for embezzling sh38m belonging to the Global Fund.

Former president Festus Mogae has said that they are pleading with the government to avail condoms to prisoners to help the country in its fight against HIV and AIDS.

The Federal Government said yesterday it had so far expended N50 billion in the procurement of HIV/AIDS equipment, to strengthen Nigeria's response to the debilitating effect of the pandemic.

THE Marondera District Aids Action Committee has launched an HIV awareness campaign targeting workplaces.

Wiley-Blackwell) The death penalty for those convicted of drug trafficking and other drug-related offenses should be abolished as it is both ineffective as a policy measure and a violation of human rights.

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NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) NYU and NYU School of Medicine received a $29.4 million, five-year Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health to establish a University-wide Clinical & Translational

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Haydee Bazan, Ph.D., Professor of Ophthalmology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, has been awarded a $710,000 grant over two years by the National Institutes of Health to advance her

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