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Africa: Momentum Builds For Long-Acting HIV Solutions As IAS 2025 Spotlights Scientific Progress, Funding Challenges And Leaders’ Calls To Action

eriinfo.com7 days ago013 mins

New WHO guidelines endorse long-acting injectable lenacapavir for HIV prevention, Medicines Patent Pool expands licence for long-acting injectable cabotegravir for treatment, and Merck’s once-monthly oral pill MK-8527 advances to Phase 3 trials in Africa 14 July 2025 (Kigali, Rwanda) – IAS 2025, the 13th IAS Conference on HIV Science, opened today with a call to accelerate…

Africa: Scientists, Activists Rally at #IAS2025 to Protect HIV Progress

eriinfo.com1 week ago013 mins

As science soars with game-changing HIV tools, a funding crisis threatens to ground progress “We come together at a pivotal time for the HIV response, one defined by both incredible scientific possibilities and deeply troubling political realities,” said Dr. Beatriz Grinsztejn, the President of the International AIDS Society (IAS), and co-chair of the conference. The…

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Africa: HIV/Aids Funding Crisis Risks Reversing Decades of Global Progress

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago010 mins

United Nations — UNAIDS called the funding crisis a ticking time bomb, saying the impact of the US cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) could result in 4 million unnecessary AIDS-related deaths by 2029. A historic withdrawal of global HIV/AIDS funding threatens to derail decades of hard-won progress in the fight…

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Africa: Zero Malaria Still Starts with Us – Ten Years of Progress, One Final Push

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago09 mins

On World Malaria Day 2014, in Dakar, Senegal, parents, health workers, students, government officials, athletes, teachers, and community and national leaders stood up and said, “Zero Malaria Starts with Me.” Today, that commitment is alive across the African continent. They meant it. With every bed net hung, every child tested and treated, and every village…

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Africa: Human Rights Can Be a ‘Strong Lever for Progress’ in Climate Change, Says UN Rights Chief

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The UN’s top rights official on Monday urged the international community to confront the growing human rights implications of climate change. Speaking at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, High Commissioner Volker Türk asked Member States whether enough was being done to protect people from the escalating impacts of climate change “Are we taking the…

Can SA overcome historic challenges to progress in cyber security

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago06 mins

Business leaders and cyber security experts shared insights on ITWeb TV during the 20th annual ITWeb Security Summit 2025. At the annual ITWeb Security Summit 2025, technology professionals used the opportunity to reflect on changes in SA’s cyber security ecosystem and what issues need to be addressed to help this market advance. Speaking to ITWeb…

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Africa CDC Reports Daily Cholera Cases Decline in Amhara, Attributes Progress to Joint Response

eriinfo.com1 month ago05 mins

Addis Abeba– Daily cholera cases in the Amhara Region have declined in recent weeks, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), which attributed the development to a “coordinated response” implemented jointly with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) and the Amhara Public Health Institute (APHI). Africa CDC said the deployment…

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Africa: Insufficient Domestic Funding Hinders Education Progress

eriinfo.com1 month ago09 mins

Abuja — Most African Governments Don’t Meet Global Funding Benchmarks Most African governments have consistently failed to meet global and regional education funding targets to ensure quality public education, Human Rights Watch said today on the African Union‘s Day of the African Child. The 2025 theme for the day is “planning and budgeting for children’s…

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Africa: Regaining Progress On Birth Registration Is Critical to Child Protection

eriinfo.com1 month ago014 mins

Sydney — Registering the birth of a newborn, which is taken for granted in many countries, has profound lifelong repercussions for a child’s health, protection, and well-being. But after initially increasing this century, the global birth registration rate has declined in the past ten years, with some countries in the Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa facing…

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Africa: In Vaccine Nation, Raina Macintyre Reflects On Science, Misinformation and the Threat to 200 Years of Progress

eriinfo.com1 month ago014 mins

Raina MacIntyre is one of Australia’s most respected epidemiologists. She was a familiar face and calm voice during the COVID-19 pandemic. So when I was asked to review her new book Vaccine Nation I was delighted to accept. Review: Vaccine Nation: Science, Reason and the Threat to 200 Years of Progress – Raina MacIntyre (UNSW…