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.
South Africa’s fight against HIV and Aids has in a very short time become a success story, says President Jacob Zuma.
Hundreds of sex workers who said they were denied visas to attend an international Aids conference in the US have begun their own meeting in protest.
For most women, being HIV-positive makes them victims of many forms of violence, a new report has found. Aneesa Fazel reports.
A labour dispute is boiling at the South African National Aids Council, raising concerns over their ability to implement the national strategic plan.
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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.
President Jacob Zuma has presented a five-year plan to reduce new HIV and TB infections by 50%.
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/ 30 November 2011
UN health agencies say extraordinary progress has been made in the fight against Aids but a funding crisis is putting those gains at risk.
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/ 29 November 2011
South Africa has an estimated 5.7-million people living with HIV and Aids, more than any other country on Earth.
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/ 29 November 2011
A gel researchers once hailed as a breakthrough in the prevention of HIV transmission among women, has been shown to be ineffective.
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/ 23 November 2011
The Treatment Action Campaign faces closure due to a lack of funds, which it claims is primarily due to bad administration at the health department.
US regulators approved a once-daily HIV pill by Gilead Sciences, giving a new source of revenue to the leading maker of HIV medicines.
Aids patients and government officials on Friday celebrated the 10th anniversary of a pioneering program that brought drugs to impoverished people.
After 30 years of Aids prevention efforts, global leaders may now need to shift their focus to spending more on drugs used to treat the syndrome.
On June 5 1981 epidemiologists reported a baffling event: five young gay men in Los Angeles, all previously healthy, had fallen ill with pneumonia.
About 50% of men who have sex with other men in Soweto are HIV positive, writes <b>Yngve Sjolund</b>.
Only a handful of organisations organise HIV tests in schools in SA, a country hard-hit by the virus that infects 5,7-million people.
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/ 1 December 2010
More than 4,6-million South Africans took an HIV test since April, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said at a World Aids Day event in Mpumalanga.
SA’s health minister is concerned at the cost of coping with Aids in the country with the world’s largest number of HIV-positive citizens.
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/ 1 December 2010
A generation of babies could be born free of Aids if the international community stepped up efforts to provide universal access to HIV prevention.
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/ 30 November 2010
Gay Kenyans will be driven further away from HIV care services following a recent call by the prime minister’s calling for a crackdown on homosexuals.
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/ 30 November 2010
As the world looks toward new prevention technologies, majority of men who have sex with men report no easy access to condoms and lubricant.
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/ 24 November 2010
Campaigners say breakthrough with once-a-day pill could change approaches to preventing HIV and Aids.
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/ 23 November 2010
Efforts to curb the Aids pandemic are beginning to pay off and the world is beginning to see a reversal in the spread of the syndrome.
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/ 23 November 2010
Almost half of women working on farms around Limpopo and Mpumalanga are HIV positive, compared to only a third of the male workforce, a study revealed
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/ 23 November 2010
The pope’s suggestion that condoms could be used in limited situations has grabbed the attention of Africa which has a soaring number of Catholics.
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/ 19 November 2010
According to a report, South Africa has the ability to more than halve its new HIV infections in 10 years if it used the right programmes and funding.
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/ 15 November 2010
The US ranks high on President Robert Mugabe’s enemies list, but at ground level it is leading a war on HIV/Aids.
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/ 10 November 2010
Using SMSs to remind HIV patients to take their dose of medication can give a major boost to drug adherence, a study in Kenya showed.
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/ 8 November 2010
A policeman rampaged through three bars in a central Kenyan town, killing 10, looking for a woman who infected him with HIV.
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/ 27 October 2010
Groups developing a gel to protect women from HIV/Aids say they are moving ahead to develop the product that was hailed as "groundbreaking".