Swallowing pills to get medication is a quick, painless and often not entirely effective way of treating disease. A potentially better way? Lasers. In this passionate talk, TED Fellow Patience Mthunzi explains her idea to use lasers to deliver drugs directly to cells infected with HIV. It’s early days yet, but could a cure be on the horizon?
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HIV nPEP visits present an important opportunity to test and manage bacterial STI’s and viral hepatitis in the infected patients.
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United Nations, together with world leaders, non-profit organizations and global advocates, has marked December 1 as World AIDS day. What happened in 2015?
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TED Video: Creating an STD-free generation – presented by Jessica Ladd, the founder of Sexual Health Innovations, an organization that uses technology to improve sexual health.
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Knowledge of nurses on PEP for HIV in Cameroon is low. Training to increase awareness is necessary to reduce risk of occupational HIV.
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A video by Khan Academy on the different ways to diagnose the HIV virus.
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Advancement in HIV treatment making natural conception possible among couples where one partner is HIV-positive risks infecting the other.
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Will Nutland proposes that instead of the Hollywood style ‘end of AIDS moment’ fantasy, the end of AIDS will be a process with a number of emerging endpoints. In this eye-opening talk, Will introduces a number of emerging treatments and discusses their efficacy and levels of acceptability. He surmises that the end might happen without us even noticing.
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Dental students in India aware of the risk of occupational HIV exposure and concept of PEP therapy but not aware of how to correctly use it
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VICE explores the future of the Truvada and its revolutionary impact on ending HIV/AIDS.
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