In January the Government of Fiji declared an HIV outbreak in response to the sharp increase in new diagnoses. Although its HIV Surge Strategy seeks to rapidly expand HIV testing and treatment, most ...

The World Health Organization has recommended the use of injectable lenacapavir (LEN) twice a year as an additional ...

Like many Pacific states that rely on tourism, Fiji had a hard time during the main pandemic years. But as tourism recovers, another crisis threatens the island nation's stability—one fueled by ...

Fiji now has the world’s fastest growing HIV epidemic. A UNAIDS report titled 2025 Global AIDS Update, AIDS, Crisis and the ...

HIV/AIDS strains household finances through lost income and increased health care costs, diverts public spending from other areas, with flow-on impacts for national and regional economies.

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"The response here in Fiji is about 15 years behind what is needed. We're still not getting testing done within a shorter ...

HIV/AIDS is surging in Fiji, with a 260 per cent increase in new infections between 2010 and 2022. The rise partly stems from rising illegal drug use, but must be viewed in the context of a ...

Driven by foreign drug cartels using Fiji as a staging post for operations in New Zealand and Australia, the drug has also spread into local communities. In turn, it has fueled a surge in HIV ...

Fiji health authorities are scrambling to stem an outbreak of HIV, as growing meth use and alarming needle-sharing trends accelerate the spread of the virus.

The causal relationship between HIV and AIDS was established in the mid-1980s. In 2008, French researchers won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the virus that causes AIDS.

In many ways, African-Americans have been hit harder by HIV than any other racial or ethnic group in the United States. Why are the numbers so high?