KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 — Approximately 222 HIV infections were detected among students of higher learning institutions (IPT) last year, including those as young as 18 and 19, said Deputy Health Minister Datuk Lukanisman Awang Sauni.

PUTRAJAYA, April 29 — Teaching hours for the Reproductive and Social Health Education (PEERS) module will be increased under the 2027 School Curriculum as part of efforts to better equip students with the essential knowledge, said Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek.

GENEVA, Feb 8 — The suspension of foreign aid programmes by United States (US) President Donald Trump puts 6.3 million people at risk of dying from the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) over the next four years, a United Nations (UN) organisation dealing with the viral disease warned on Friday.

LONDON, Dec 17 — A new long-acting preventive HIV drug could reach the world’s poorest countries by the end of 2025 or early 2026, a global health official told Reuters today.

DUBAI, Dec 5 — The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund) announced that more than 70 per cent of its funding, totaling over US$9 billion, will be allocated over the next three years to support countries most heavily impacted by climate change, aiming to bolster health programmes.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 19 — Malaysian AIDS Foundation (MAF) chairman cum Universiti Malaya Centre of Excellence for Research on AIDS (CERiA) director Prof Datuk Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman has been appointed to the Global Commission on Drug Policy as its latest commissioner, making her the first Malaysian to hold that distinction.

KUALA BERANG, May 22 — Unsafe sex has been identified as the main cause behind HIV/AIDS infections in the country, said the Ministry of Health (MOH)'s HIV/STI/Hepatitis C Sector head Dr Anita Suleiman.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 7 — The Social Security Organisation (Socso) and Malaysian AIDS Foundation (MAF) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to empower contributors among People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA).

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — Malaysia has successfully reduced the number of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases to 3,146 in 2020, or 9.31 cases per 100,000 population, through various prevention, control, treatment and care efforts implemented by the government over the past three decades.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 31 — It is common knowledge that the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is transmitted mostly through unprotected sex and injection drug use.

NEW YORK, Dec 2 — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for global solidarity and shared responsibility to overcome not only the Covid-19 pandemic, but also AIDS.