Almost one-sixth of guests at a major AIDS conference in Montreal last year who received Canadian visas ended up claiming asylum, according to internal data obtained by The Canadian Press. The documents also show Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada struggled to work with the International AIDS Society as both tried to avoid a mass refusal…

The New Mexico Department of Health (DOH) warned people who received “vampire facials” from a now-out-of-business spa to get tested after an HIV case was confirmed in connection to the business. Former clients of VIP Beauty Salon and Spa, located in Albuquerque, may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C if they received…

Since people living with HIV are at an increased risk for developing cardiovascular diseases, regular risk screening is recommended. However, conventional cardiovascular risk prediction models are not accurate enough due to their failure to consider crucial variables such as race and health status, including conditions like AIDS. To address this issue, the researchers at the…

An especially severe form of monkeypox has been found by researchers to have a higher risk of severe complications and death among men with advanced HIV or AIDS, according to a study published in The Lancet. According to the research team, monkeypox, or mpox, has had a considerable impact on men who have HIV and…

A recent South Korean medical study shows that long-term consumption of Korean red ginseng can slow down the rate that HIV reaches more advanced stages. The study was conducted by a research team led by Professor Cho Young-gul from the Microbiology Department of the University of Ulsan’s Asan Medical Center in Seoul. It followed 146…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gave out a further $115 million in funding on Thursday as part of the Biden administration’s plan to reduce the number of new HIV infections in the United States by at least 90 percent by 2030. Nearly $103 million was given to 39 metropolitan areas and…

SAN DIEGO—A so-called “drug tourism” may be fueling a new HIV outbreak in Tijuana, unabated by the COVID-19 closure of the international border, the University of California–San Diego School of Medicine researchers announced on Feb. 11 at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infection. Specifically, the researchers found that the HIV incidence rate among people who…

A human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) variant has been discovered in the Netherlands by researchers at Oxford University, who say the variant is highly infectious and more damaging than other HIV variants and can put individuals at risk of developing AIDS “much more rapidly.” HIV is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system, which can lead…

HIV and AIDS remain a major public health problem and cause of death in China, with more than a million people reportedly having HIV at the end of 2020, according to a recent report. In the past decade, China’s HIV infection rates have increased significantly for men of all age groups, with a growing prevalence…

HIV self-test kits will be soon available in Australian pharmacies from mid-December as a critically important additional tool to help people know their HIV status. The devices will cost $25 each and will first be available at Serafim’s pharmacy at Taylor Square in Sydney and the 777 pharmacy network in Western Australia, with other pharmacies…