Introduction Towards the ‘End TB Strategy’ targets, the WHO recommends the provision of tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy (TPT) for high-risk groups including people living with HIV (PLWH). 3 years ...

The Asia-Pacific region is facing a ‘hidden epidemic’ of HIV among adolescents. There were an estimated 50,000 new HIV infections among adolescents aged 15-19 in 2014, accounting for 15 per cent of ...

THE issue of human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV-AIDS) never really left the Philippines. Our country now has the highest risk of HIV infection in East Asia and the ...

International criminal syndicates have been using Fiji as a transshipment point for drugs originating in Southeast Asia and ...

The Philippines is facing the fastest-growing HIV epidemic in the Asia-Pacific, with new infections increasing by 550 percent over the past 14 years, a public health emergency that experts warn cannot ...

When he was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2016, Georgi, then a worker in his 40s for the municipal water company in Bishkek, knew little about the disease beyond some stereotypes and what he learned ...

BANGKOK , 4 September (PlusNews) - Thailand is considering making life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs available to refugees from Myanmar living with HIV/AIDS in camps along the Thai-Myanmar border.

GENEVA, December 1 (UNHCR) - A senior UNHCR official said on Monday that while the UN refugee agency had made progress in battling HIV and AIDS among displaced populations in recent years, there is ...