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All the US Agency for International Development (USAID) direct hire personnel have been placed on administrative leave globally.
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Staff of USAID placed on leave, overseas missions may shut down

All the US Agency for International Development (USAID) direct hire personnel have been placed on administrative leave globally.

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The UNAIDS has welcomed a move by the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to approve an “Emergency Humanitarian Waiver” to allow people to continue accessing HIV treatment funded by the US across 55 countries worldwide.
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US ‘humanitarian wavier’ will help deliver life-saving HIV medicines: UN

The UNAIDS has welcomed a move by the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to approve an “Emergency Humanitarian Waiver” to allow.

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A US government’s decision to pause funding for HIV programmes in low and middle-income countries will take the world back to the 1980s and 1990s when millions died of the virus, including many in the United States, according to the World Health Organization.
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US aid pause to take ‘world back to 1980s, 1990s’ on fighting HIV: WHO 

A US government’s decision to pause funding for HIV programmes in low and middle-income countries will take the world back to the 1980s.

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The National Instituted of Health, US, has started a mid-stage clinical trial to examine the safety and acceptability of a rectal microbicide douche containing the antiretroviral drug tenofovir to prevent HIV infection spread among men.
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Mid-stage trial of a rectal microbicide for HIV prevention in the US begins 

HQ Team November 3, 2024: The National Instituted of Health, US, has started a mid-stage clinical trial to examine the safety and acceptability.

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HIV vaccine trials conducted in Eastern and Southern Africa threw up surprising results when more infections were reported in the two vaccine groups than in the placebo or dummy group.
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PrEPVacc HIV trials’ results ‘surprising’ as dummy group clocks less infections

HIV vaccine trials conducted in Eastern and Southern Africa threw up surprising results when more infections were reported in the two vaccine groups.

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A person dies every minute due to AIDS-related causes, and the world is off-track to achieve its goals with a quarter of 39.9 million HIV people not able to receive treatment owing to a shortage of funds and an anti-rights push, a report stated.
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Fund crunch, anti-rights push, slowing global target to end AIDS, UN says

A person dies every minute due to AIDS-related causes, and the world is off-track to achieve its goals with a quarter of 39.9.

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US-based Varda Space Industries’ spacecraft in orbit crystallised a metastable form of a drug for HIV/AIDS — furthering the feasibility of processing pharmaceuticals in microgravity.
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US-based Varda Space crystallises HIV drug in microgravity

 HQ Team March 31, 2024: US-based Varda Space Industries’ spacecraft in orbit crystallised a metastable form of a drug for HIV/AIDS — furthering.

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British pharmaceutical firm, GSK Plc., has got marketing authorization from the European Medicines Authority for its injectable, and tablets, cabotegravir, to prevent HIV.
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Britain’s GSK gets EMA clearance for drug to prevent HIV 

HQ Team July 24, 2023: British pharmaceutical firm, GSK Plc., has got marketing authorization from the European Medicines Authority for its injectable, and.

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The reliance of countries on external support for funding initiatives to combat HIV is worrisome, and though new infections and deaths are falling, some nations are experiencing rising incidence, the WHO stated.
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Challenges to fight HIV remain, funding ‘precarious’: WHO

HQ Team July 24, 2023: The reliance of countries on external support for funding initiatives to combat HIV is worrisome, and though new.

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The FDA has approved the first daily oral contraceptive pill, Opill, without prescription to be sold in the US, according to a statement from the regulator.
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USFDA allows first oral contraceptive without a prescription 

HQ Team July 14, 2023: The FDA has approved the first daily oral contraceptive pill, Opill, without prescription to be sold in the.

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