Past meets present in the underground fight against Aids.
Southern African health officials and international agencies will sign an agreement in Swaziland to reduce TB and HIV in the region’s mining sector.
Poor oral hygiene doesn’t just affect your gums; it can also lead to impotence.
At least 28% of schoolgirls across SA are HIV positive, a figure blamed on sexual relationships between young women and older men, say reports.
Why would young, single African women not take free drugs that could potentially save them from contracting a life-threatening infection?
Aids kills more people prematurely in SA than another other disease – in sharp contrast to two decades ago, which set them at just 12%.
According to HIV prevention trial results, the daily use of pills or a vaginal gel does not appear to prevent HIV-infection in African women.
HIV experts are cautiously optimistic about a "functional cure" but say there is no substitute for preventing infection in the first place.
Doctors in the US have made medical history after the "functional cure" of HIV in a child – the first time such a case has been documented.
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/ 28 February 2013
Studies show that men who themselves are victims are more likely to abuse women
Immune boosters should not be substituted for real medication. Yet the claims on their packaging may seduce and persuade consumers
ARVs have slowed down the rate of new HIV infections and increased the life expectancy of the general population in rural KZN
In 2012 we obtained and published footage of an HIV positive woman in Swaziland, having to eat cow dung to take her ARVs. This is an update on her story.
The national HIV mother-to-child transmission rate (MTCT) dropped to 2.7% in 2011, according to a Medical Research Council report.
Professionals trained in traditional methods are rescuing patients abandoned by budget cuts, writes Nellie Bowles.
A labour dispute is boiling at the South African National Aids Council, raising concerns over their ability to implement the national strategic plan.
Physiotherapists and other health professionals play a crucial yet unacknowledged role in HIV-infected patients’ lives.
South Africans can expect the introduction of laws restricting fatty acids and salt content in food, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said.
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/ 27 December 2011
Government is yet to set a date for its planned HIV testing programme in schools around the country as a number of issues still remained unresolved.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has urged international donors not to let concerns for gay rights affect the country’s need for developmental aid.
Trials for vaginal gels and other prevention options have had dismal results, writes Gita Ramjee.
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/ 9 December 2011
The great news this past year is that now scientists have tentatively offered us a way to end Aids.
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/ 2 December 2011
The death rate in South Africa, particularly among young adults, is on the decrease, according to Statistics South Africa.
Southern Africa has little reason to celebrate, given the massive HIV funding cuts that threaten to take the region back to where it was 10 years ago.
In 2006, doctors at an isolated former Transkei hospital took the decision to encourage mothers to only feed breastmilk till babies are six months.
President Jacob Zuma has presented a five-year plan to reduce new HIV and TB infections by 50%.
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/ 16 September 2011
The promotion, support and protection of breastfeeding is critical to turn the tide against child mortality.
HIV doctors argue that mothers should be able to choose how they feed their babies.
"Despite modern scientific advances, no scientist has been able to incorporate immune protection into formula milk." — <b>Aaron Motsoaledi</b>.
One-size-fits-all policy for HIV-positive mothers could reverse gains made in saving infant lives.
HIV has been around for a long time but there are still some serious misunderstandings about it, writes <b>Mia Malan</b>.
Doctors in the HIV field and mothers infected have reacted with doubt to the health minister’s announcement of an "exclusive breastfeeding" policy.