Tag: AIDS
The AIDS epidemic in ten key dates
News Published on 05/15/2023 at 11:18 a.m. Updated 05/15/2023 at 11:18 a.m. Reading 3 mins. Forty years after the discovery of HIV, a look back at the main stages of…
In France, HIV-positive people will be able to join the army
Gendarme, Paris firefighter, soldier… Until now, in France, HIV-positive people could not access these professions. In a letter sent on May 2 to the Minister of the Armed Forces, the…
Africa, the vaccine, and distrust of science: three major challenges in the fight against AIDS
News Published on 03/26/2023 at 11:31 a.m. Updated 03/26/2023 at 11:31 a.m. Reading 3 mins. The therapeutic and preventive advances of the past four decades suggest a future without AIDS,…
viral reservoirs, an important area of research against HIV
Sidaction takes place throughout the weekend of March 25-26. This fundraising operation aims in particular to support research on AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). Admittedly, very significant progress has been made…
for more than 25 years, Bernard has been living with HIV… and antiretrovirals
Friday, March 24, Sidaction opened, a fundraising operation to support research, but also associations that do prevention and help people infected with the AIDS virus, in France and in sub-Saharan…
Sidaction 2023: among young people, preconceived ideas about AIDS persist
News Published on 03/21/2023 at 12:15 p.m. Updated 03/21/2023 at 12:15 p.m. Reading 3 mins. On March 24, 25 and 26, Sidaction will take its place among the 35 partner…
AIDS: a first mixed-race patient potentially cured of HIV
News Published on 03/20/2023 at 10:20 a.m. Updated 03/20/2023 at 10:20 a.m. Reading 3 mins. in collaboration with Ivan Pourmir (medical oncologist) A patient with leukemia as well as HIV…
Federal funding aids projects in Sarnia, Watford and Thedford
Funding for recent construction projects in Sarnia, Watford and Lambton Shores were part of a $6-million announcement Friday by federal officials. The Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario highlighted…
AIDS patients threatened by a severe form of monkeypox
News Published on 02/23/2023 at 1:19 p.m. Updated 02/23/2023 at 1:19 p.m. Reading 1 min. A particularly serious form of monkeypox, also called “mpox”, has been identified in patients infected…
a third case of HIV recovery after a bone marrow transplant
A new case of HIV cure was announced on Monday February 20 after the publication of the work of several virologists in the journal Nature Medicine. After a bone marrow…