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World AIDS Day: HIV diagnoses dropped by 24% during COVID-19 pandemic

In many countries, lockdowns have led to steep drops in HIV diagnoses, referrals to care services, and HIV treatment initiations, according to two reports.

Culture news

World AIDS Day: Television shows, podcasts, and plays that educated us

Here are some of culture's most crucial offerings that helped us gain awareness of the plight of HIV and AIDS sufferers worldwide.

Tech News

Euroviews. World AIDS Day: We need global responses to tackle all pandemics

To end the global Covid pandemic, richer nations need to focus their vaccines, health technologies and finance on poorer countries too.

Health news

Argentine woman may be second person to naturally recover from HIV

The HIV virus appears to have disappeared from this patient's body, researchers said.

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The Cube

Social media firms sanction Bolsonaro over COVID vaccine claims

YouTube said it had suspended the Brazilian President for one week, while Facebook and Instagram have removed his live broadcast from last week.

World

WHO calls on leaders to maintain HIV services during COVID-19 pandemic

Amid the pandemic, the World Health Organisation is also urging governments not to forget measures to curb HIV infections.

World News

Europeans find they're HIV positive '3 years after they are infected'

Figures released on World AIDS Day show infection and death rates are falling, but experts warn many people spend years without knowing they are infected.

World

The other pandemic: HIV/AIDS fight hit by coronavirus crisis

UNAIDS has warned that coronavirus-related disruptions in HIV treatment could result in half a million excess deaths in sub-Saharan Africa.

USA

Playwright and AIDS activist Larry Kramer dies aged 84

“The one nice thing that I seem to have acquired, accidentally, is this reputation of everyone afraid of my voice,” Kramer once said.

United Kingdom

World Aids Day: how did Edinburgh become the 'Aids capital of Europe'?

How did the Scottish capital become known as the Aids capital of Europe in the 1980s? The answer lies somewhere between Tory austerity, the 1979 Islamic Revolution and pioneering research.

World News

Euroviews. Why stigma is still Europe's biggest barrier to preventing the spread and treatment of HIV ǀ View

Whilst I agree that funding is certainly one of the main foundations needed to implement free access to the HIV-prevention drug, I would argue that this issue is very much engrained in societal attitudes towards gay and bisexual men, as well as broader government policies concerning LGBT rights.

France

Global Fund raises its targeted €12 billion to fight pandemics

Global Fund raises its targeted €12 billion to fight pandemics

France

France calls for funds to 'intensify' Global Fund fight against AIDS

The Global Fund Forum aims to save 16 million lives within the next four years as well as averting 234 million infections worldwide.

The Cube

French charity publishes deepfake of Trump saying 'AIDS is over'

A deepfake video developed by French charity Solidarité Sida features US President Donald Trump saying ''AIDS is over''. But should fake news be used in this way?

World

World leaders gather in France for Global Fund initiative

A conference in France, which kicked off on Wednesday, aims to raise funds to combat deadly diseases and condemn them to the history books.

United Kingdom

Watch: AIDS awareness animation featuring Freddie Mercury released

The video tells the story of two white blood cells, one of whom is infected with the virus, who fall in love. Mercury, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1991, performs his 1985 track Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow.

France

Sir Elton John is awarded France's highest civilian award

Emmanuel Macron used the occasion to urge international mobilisation for the combatting of Aids- one of the showman's dearest causes.

United Kingdom

AIDS drugs reduce transmission to 'zero', study finds

Nearly 1,000 gay male couples across Europe took part in the eight-year study.

Cinema

Ximei documentary premieres at Geneva Human Rights Film Festival

Ximei documentary produced by Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei premieres at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva

United Kingdom

Euroviews. No new HIV cases by 2030 is a pipe dream without NHS funding ǀ View

UK health secretary Matt Hancock’s goal of England being the first country in the world with no new cases of HIV by 2030 seems ambitious at best - and unrealistic at worst.