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It’s possible to end HIV epidemics among people who inject drugs in low- and middle-income countries

HIV incidence is below 0.1% per year among people who inject drugs in a large Vietnamese city, Professor Don Des Jarlais and colleagues report in the December issue of AIDS. They say the data clearly demonstrate that it is possible to achieve very low HIV incidence – ‘to end an HIV epidemic’ – among people… Read More »

Scandit Expands into the Japanese Market to Enable Digital Transformation Through Computer Vision and Augmented Reality

The company already has over 20 customers in Japan, including several major retail and transport & logistics brands. Tokyo, Japan – November 20, 2020 – Scandit, the leading technology platform for mobile computer vision and augmented reality (AR) solutions for enterprises, today announced that it is expanding into the Japanese market with the establishment of… Read More »

Almost half of HIV diagnoses in Europe are late, with serious impact on health outcomes

Almost half of HIV diagnoses in Europe are among people whose immune systems have already been seriously weakened by HIV, an international team of investigators report in BMC Infectious Diseases. Just under half a million people, half of them in Russia, are estimated to have received a late HIV diagnosis between 2010 and 2016. Late… Read More »