HEALTH

By Badreldeen Khalafallah Alawad– badrkhalaf@gmail.com. A new WHO report confirms that HIV infection is a significant independent risk factor for both severe/ critical COVID-19 presentation at hospital admission and in-hospital mortality. Overall, nearly a quarter (23.1%) of all people living with HIV who were hospitalized with COVID-19, died. The report is based on clinical surveillance…

By Badreldeen Khalafallah Alawad – badrkhalaf@gmail.com Researchers from Uganda and the US have raised concern over the huge number of new HIV infections and Aids-related deaths among children and youth in the country.According to the researchers upto 19,000 new HIV infections and 7,000 Aids-related deaths are reported annually among children and youth. They blamed this…