Rural hospitals are struggling across South Africa – that they function at all is too often not thanks to the state, but the work of Good Samaritans.
Mia Malan speaks to Dr Carl Albrecht, head of research at the Cancer Association of South Africa, to gauge the state of the disease locally.
A new report says men are able to plan their sex lives better than women and the day of the week on which the fewest people have sex is Tuesday.
Pressure’s mounting on SA’s Medicines Control Council to register the use of Truvada by the HIV-negative to lower chances of being infected with HIV.
Africa has been the poor relative with too few representatives at global HIV/Aids conferences. But things are changing, writes Mia Malan.
New evidence has shown that ARVs have the ability to reduce HIV infections of partners dramatically, writes Mia Malan.
PrePex, with which nurses can perform bloodless circumcisions without the supervision of a doctor, should be vetted by the WHO early next year.
Partial foreskin removal in some traditional practice may not protect as well against HIV, writes Mia Malan.
HIV activists from Africa and the US have called for a rapid increase in voluntary medical male circumcision in Africa to reduce new infections.
The threat of Aids has convinced a Zambian clansman, Jonathan Mumena, to do what is safest for his people. Mia Malan reports.