HIV AIDS

While the global fight against HIV/AIDS has made some tremendous strides over the decades, this post-pandemic world presents new obstacles— chief among them, the challenge of sustaining funding and focus. With healthcare priorities shifting and resources being redirected, are we at risk of losing those hard-won gains? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks to Nik Tasha Nik Kamaruddin, Chief Brand Strategy Officer of Sunway Group, and Professor Datuk Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Chairperson of the Malaysia AIDS Foundation and President & Pro Vice-Chancellor at Monash University Malaysia.

Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the highest percentage of reported HIV/AIDS cases involved young people.

The death toll means infections by bacteria resistant to antibiotics are directly responsible for more deaths than HIV/AIDS or malaria.

Through this strategic cooperation, Socso and MAF will implement the Prevention and Disability Management programme.

Why decades of HIV/AIDS research yielded so little progress on a jab to prevent a disease that claimed some 680,000 lives in 2020?

Dr Adham said the occasion, celebrated on Dec 1 each year, should be a platform for all parties to renew their commitment and double their efforts in curbing HIV/AIDS infection.

At the end of 2016, there were 10,500 Filipinos infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) up from 4,300 in 2010, Health Minister Paulyn Ubial said.

Karex Berhad raises over RM260,000 through its charity auction to raise awareness on HIV and AIDS.

Malaysia is expected to achieve reduced rates of new cases of HIV infection to not more than 11 cases for every 100,000 people this year, in line with the World Health Organisation's (WHO) target.

A total of 841 new cases were recorded in June alone, the highest ever monthly figure since the country's first reported case in 1984.

There are more than 90,000 Malaysians living with HIV/AIDS today, but only a fraction of them are seeking treatment.

The rate of new HIV cases reported to the Health Ministry in the country is expected to drop to 11 cases per 100,000 people by the year-end.

A new UN report stated that more treatments are needed to prevent the spread of AIDS and to end it by 2030.

HIV/AIDS, awareness campaign

According to Malaysia Global AIDS Response Progress Report 2014, a total of 101,672 cases with 16,340 deaths were recorded among HIV/AIDS patients between 1986 and 2013.

Donald Trump says he would impose the tariffs until China stops the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, into the United States.

Topping the demands of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party is the release of all its leaders, including Khan, who has been jailed on a series of corruption charges since August 2023.

The report highlights that "60 per cent of all female homicides" are committed by "people closely related to them".

Two subsea cables, one linking Finland and Germany and the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania, were damaged in less than 24 hours.

It is clear that adding more lanes and highways doesn't work, because we are still attempting the same approach to solve the issue.

This investment includes efforts to upgrade INOKOM's existing assembly capacity to meet Hyundai's automotive needs.

'C4Cinta', directed by young filmmaker Karthik Shamalan, has set a new benchmark in Malaysian Tamil cinema.

The court denied bail and scheduled case mention on Feb 7 for the submission of forensic, autopsy, and chemist reports.

The classroom assessment approach offers a much more interesting learning ecosystem, says Fadhlina Sidek.

Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.