Makram Haddad, 10:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
The history of AIDS officially begins in the early 1980s, when research teams, including that of Luc Montagnier at the Institut Pasteur, identified the human immunodeficiency virus. At the time, doctors had neither reliable tests nor effective treatment. Today, the situation has radically changed: triple and dual antiretroviral therapies control ...
Alain E. Andrea, 22/01 21:26 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
A patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was declared in remission after undergoing an allogeneic bone marrow transplant in 2020, according to a press release from the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), published on Friday, January 17. This case represents the first success of its kind in France and the eighth ...
Alain E. Andrea, 2024-12-05 14:35 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
AIDS Health France United States
At the end of the 20th century, AIDS, previously unknown, spread rapidly, plunging the world into an unprecedented public health crisis. Researchers worked diligently to uncover the causes of this mysterious disease. In May 1983, Luc Montagnier and his team at the Pasteur Institute in Paris published an article in Science announcing that they had ...
Alain E. Andrea, 2024-12-02 18:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam AIDS Health France
In the early 1980s, a previously unknown disease emerged, signaling an unprecedented upheaval in the history of global public health. It all began on June 5, 1981, with the publication in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of an article titled Pneumocystis Pneumonia—Los ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-01 13:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
On the occasion of World AIDS Day, This is Beirut takes you behind the scenes of one of the most groundbreaking scientific discoveries of the 20th century: the identification of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the infectious agent responsible for AIDS. For the first time, Professor Ara Hovanessian (then a research director at the CNRS in ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-29 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The announcement made on Thursday, November 28, is a noteworthy step in raising awareness about HIV stigma, with activist Nomonde Ngema set to take over Charlize Theron’s Instagram to highlight the challenges faced by people living with HIV, particularly in South Africa. This collaboration highlights the ongoing challenges faced by people living ...
Maurice Matta, 2024-10-24 10:40 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
United Nations war mikati hajjar aids
On October 1, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and UN Humanitarian Coordinator Omran Riza launched an urgent appeal for $426 million to address the immediate humanitarian needs of civilians affected by the war and the resulting crisis. To date, the United Nations has secured commitments totaling approximately $150 million, with continued ...
Bélinda Ibrahim, 2023-12-01 11:23 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
A recent report by UNAIDS emphasizes that the goal of eradicating AIDS by 2030 is achievable, thanks to scientific and medical progress as well as political and financial mobilization. However, inequalities and obstacles remain. Thanks to scientific advances in recent years and unprecedented political and citizen mobilization, the goal of ending ...