KUCHING, July 17 — Asean needs to establish a regional mechanism to tackle the high cost of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for HIV treatment, said Deputy Health Minister Datuk Lukanisman Awang Sauni.

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.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 — The “you only live once”, or “yolo”, mentality among youth is believed to encourage them to experiment with same-sex relationships, which may contribute to rising HIV infections among men aged 20 to 39.

WASHINGTON, March 18 — Washington’s decision to pause US foreign aid has “substantially disrupted” supply of HIV treatments in eight countries, which could soon run out of these life-saving medicines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

LONDON, Feb 21 — The United States government’s foreign aid freeze has upended the supply chain for medical products crucial for fighting diseases including HIV and malaria in some of the world’s poorest countries, and life-threatening gaps could persist for months, according to two sources familiar with the sector.

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 19 — South African lab technician Nozipho Mlotshwa was waiting for the test results for a potential HIV vaccine, which has eluded scientists for decades, when the order came from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to stop work.

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.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 22 — The National Registration Department (JPN) has denied some of the information and facts reported by Malaysiakini in its special Malaysia Day series on the issue of stateless people in Malaysia from September 15 to September 22.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 — The Health Ministry (MoH) will carry out a pilot project regarding the use of the PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) medicine in several hospitals to assess its effectiveness and safety in reducing the risk of HIV infection.

SEREMBAN, Dec 1 — Malaysia has recorded a 70 per cent drop in the number of new HIV infections over the last 20 years, said deputy director-general of Health (Public Health) Datuk Dr Norhayati Rusli.

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 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.