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HIV SELF-TESTING: A PROMISING ALTERNATIVE TO HIV TESTING

8. December 20225. December 2022 by Niadawe Ismael, MLS, MPH

Having claimed around 40.1 million lives so far, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continues to be a major global health threat. In 2021, 1.5 million people acquired HIV and 650000 people died due to HIV related causes. Globally, two-thirds of people living with HIV at the end of 2021 were in the World Health Organization (WHO) …

The Benefits of an Early Diagnosis for STIs

14. January 2020 by Ghana Medicals

More than 448 million people around the globe are infected with STIs. 110 million of those infected live in the sub-Saharan African region. That’s is almost a quarter of the entire population carrying these infections. For many years now, sub-Saharan Africa has been dealing with a high prevalence of STIs. Syphilis, chlamydia, trich, herpes, and …