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The scourge of LGBTQ criminalisation moving across African countries – and its impact on HIV
“The evidence is overwhelming: criminalisation does not prevent HIV – it fuels it,” Immaculate Owomugisha Bazare, Director of the Centre for Women Justice, Uganda, said in a plenary presentation at the 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026) held in Rio de Janeiro recently.
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Lean people with HIV can still develop fatty liver disease
Lean people who are classified as having normal weight according to body mass index (BMI) may still develop fatty liver disease and its complications, and those living with HIV may be at higher risk, according to study findings presented last week at the 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026) in Rio de Janeiro. “Normal BMI does not exclude clinically relevant liver disease in HIV,” said Florence Bascombe, a senior research nurse at University College London.
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A new class of drugs could sharpen the body’s immune response to HIV
A new class of drugs called CD4 mimetics could be used to sensitise the immune system to HIV, the 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026) in Rio de Janeiro heard last week. It is becoming clear that broadly neutralising antibodies, whether infused as a drug or generated by a vaccine, may not be sufficient to cure HIV, or even to lead to long-term remission off antiretroviral therapy.
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