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World AIDS Day: "Stigma around HIV does still exist"

Euronews Culture speaks to a representative of the Terrence Higgins Trust in the UK, to talk about the charity, the shifting perceptions around HIV and the lasting stigma in many people’s mindsets.

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‘Face It Alone’: Queen release previously unheard Freddie Mercury song

31 years after his death, and eight years since the last release, Queen have found a previously unheard Freddie Mercury vocal...

Health news

Are we winning or losing the fight against AIDS?

The United Nations warns that progress against HIV has stalled, putting millions of lives at risk.

Green News

Monkeypox: What are the dangers of zoonotic diseases?

What is a zoonotic disease? Let’s find out where monkeypox comes from and how to prevent further animal-to-human transmissions.

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Health news

First transplant using umbilical cord blood helps cure woman of HIV

Since receiving the blood treatment for Leukaemia from a naturally HIV-resistant donor, the woman has lived virus-free for 14 months.

France

French HIV discoverer Luc Montagnier has died at 89

Since the end of the 2000s, Montagnier started expressing views devoid of a scientific basis. His opinions led him to be shunned by much of the international scientific community.

The Cube

Debunked: COVID-19 vaccines do not create variants of HIV/AIDS

False claims have suggested a link between Coronavirus jabs and the new HIV variant that emerged in the Netherlands.

Health news

Scientists discover new highly virulent HIV variant in the Netherlands

The research team stressed that the findings are no cause for alarm as modern treatments remain effective against the new strain of HIV.

Health news

Antibiotic resistance killed 1.2 million people in 2019, study says

Deaths from previously treatable infections such as pneumonia are rising as antibiotic resistance grows worldwide.

United Kingdom

'Life-changing': Revolutionary new HIV drug approved for use in the UK

Charities have welcomed the move as it offers an alternative to taking a daily cocktail of drugs.

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.

Health news

How has COVID impacted the world’s fight against HIV, TB and malaria?

Global Fund said results had gone ‘backwards’ for the first time in the organisation’s history.

Cry Like A Boy

Strong men get tested, says Lesotho teen activist born with HIV

Lehloebi tested positive at the age of five. Fearing discrimination, his family never told him he lived with HIV. After Lohloebi learned about his status, he started a campaign to help men in Lesotho to seek help and fight stigma.

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.

France

French MPs debate ending restrictions on gay blood donors

French MPs are debating whether to stop making some gay men wait four months before they are allowed to donate blood.

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.

World News

Euroviews. The language of fear used in media reports about the coronavirus is stoking prejudice ǀ View

The language to describe the virus is adding fuel to the fires of fear that are burning in countries with confirmed cases. Phrases such as “deadly virus,” “public health emergency” and “outbreak” mirror the scripts of disaster movies rather than real life.

Russia

Living with HIV in one of Russia's worst-hit cities

Russia is one of the five largest emerging epidemics in the world for new HIV infections, AIDS experts tell Euronews.