HIV

ADF STAFF A dengue fever outbreak killed nearly 600 people in Burkina Faso in October 2023. A stream of disinformation followed. Social media users, including many believed to be backed by the Russian government, began attacking work…

ADF STAFF New strains of COVID-19 continue to be particularly dangerous for people living with HIV, the World Health Organization reports. As the omicron variant became the predominant strain globally, HIV-positive people did not…

ADF STAFF For years, bad information has undermined public health officials as they try to contain disease outbreaks. Rumors and falsehoods about how and when people get infected helped fuel the spread of diseases such as HIV/AIDS,…

ADF STAFF The U.S. government in early March delivered 200 new medical emergency beds to Namibia to help the country offer extra capacity to treat patients during the global pandemic. The beds are designed for medical emergencies and…

ADF STAFF As the more contagious, but less deadly omicron variant of COVID-19 begins to recede throughout the world, scientists and health care workers continue to discover new facets of the disease. Researchers now are reporting that…

ADF STAFF As Africa works to recover from the widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation has identified 10 key challenges it says the continent must overcome to make up lost ground and move forward.…

ADF STAFF Of more than 2,000 clinical drug trials scientists have conducted since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, just 150 have been in Africa. That’s continuing a historic trend that has seen Africans underrepresented in…

ADF STAFF With help from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Nigerian officials opened an integrated screening and service delivery site for tuberculosis (TB), HIV and COVID-19 on October 25. Located at…

ADF STAFF More than 8 million South Africans live with HIV-compromised immune systems, a situation that makes them vulnerable to infection by COVID-19 and — if they become infected — potential sources of new variants as their bodies…