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Despite over two decades of research, a protective vaccine against HIV-1 remains elusive. It is widely accepted that such a vaccine will require the elicitation of both T-cell mediated immunity and a broadly neutralizing antibody response. But now researchers at International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), The Scripps Research Institute, Theraclone Sciences and Monogram Biosciences have identified two new broadly neutralizing antibodies to HIV (bNAbs for short) that reveal what may be an Achilles heel on the virus.

Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine, the Regenstrief Institute and Moi University School of Medicine are the first to report that adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) to fight human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in children who live in low income countries is as high as or higher than adherence by children living in high income countries.

The U.S. Government, through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), has Thursday announced that it is supporting life-saving antiretroviral treatment for approximately 1.73 million men, women and children worldwide, including nearly 1.68 million people in sub-Saharan Africa.

Two Tanzanian doctors attend to 100, 000 citizens, a ration that is way below the WHO recommended figure and is lower than most in the region meaning that Tanzanian doctors are overworked as compared to their counterparts in Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Zambia.

Zain, the leading mobile operator in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa yesterday announced its new commercial services in Ghana with the launch of the first 3.5G network on the continent outside South Africa.