HIV Global Epidemiology Facts

Data The global HIV epidemic claimed 64% more lives in 2020 since its peak in 2004. And the number is lower with new cases of HIV infection than in any year since 1990. HIV continues to be a major global public health problem, having claimed nearly 36.3 million...

OMICRON “UPDATE”

On 26 November 2021, WHO designated variant B.1.1529 as a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of the Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE). This decision is based on evidence from TAG-VE that Omicron has several mutations that may have an...