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/ 3 December 2009
Revised guidelines for access to ARVs cast a wider net than before, but systemic change is needed to for the new protocol to have an impact.
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/ 30 November 2009
While South Africa’s HIV-infection rate may have stabilised, experts warn that the slow response to the pandemic has triggered a time bomb.
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/ 13 November 2009
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has undertaken to investigate the cases of HIV-infected patients allegedly refused antiretroviral treatment.
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/ 30 October 2009
Free State health minister Sisi Mabe is adamant that there’s “no shortage” of antiretroviral drugs in the Free State. Read the interview.
New HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa are growing twice as quickly as antiretroviral drugs are rolled out, UNAids said on Wednesday.
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/ 15 September 2009
SA won’t meet a target of providing life-prolonging drugs to 80% of people living with HIV/Aids by 2011, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has called on the generic medicine industry to invest more in researching the long-term effects of ARVs.
SA should lead the way in using antiretroviral therapy (ART) as a means of HIV prevention, WHO official Dr Reuben Granich said on Monday.
A new survey has shown that HIV prevalence in children aged between two and 14 had declined from 5,6% in 2002 to 2,5% in 2008.
Activists say Aids-related deaths in the Mbeki era should be investigated. Qudsiya Karrim reports.
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/ 30 January 2009
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour was on Friday ordered to furnish a report on the death of an inmate to the Treatment Action Campaign.
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/ 17 November 2008
The news that the Free State health department could run out of anti-retroviral drugs by January is significant.
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/ 27 October 2008
Medical researchers on Sunday unveiled clinical trials of new anti-Aids drug that better controls the spread of the deadly syndrome.
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/ 16 October 2008
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived on Thursday in Mozambique to launch a project to make antiretrovirals in the country.
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/ 17 September 2008
The Gauteng health department has launched an investigation into allegations that HIV-positive patients smoked an ARV drug at Hammanskraal Clinic.
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/ 14 September 2008
Vitamin entreprenur Matthias Rath has dropped a million-pound libel claim against the Guardian over his activities.
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/ 11 September 2008
HIV prevalence rates among pregnant women dropped 2,3% in Gauteng between 2004 and 2006, a provincial public-health profile report has found.
Signs that work on preventing the spread of HIV is bearing fruit were highlighted recently by UNAids’s two-yearly report on the state of the epidemic.
Pharmaceutical company Adcock Ingram urgently recalled two batches of its antiretroviral products on Friday due to a packaging error.
The HIV-positive mother takes a deep breath as her name is called, scurrying behind the doctor who will tell her whether she has infected her baby.
A funding shortfall could hurt HIV-positive South African prisoners in need of antiretroviral drugs, said a senior correctional services official.
Researcher Joanna Vearey speaks about the link between international migrants’ access to antiretrovirals and their ability to survive in South Africa.
The awarding of a new tender for antiretroviral drugs by the Health Department will mean important savings for the state’s treatment programme.
The Department of Health awarded a R3,615-billion tender to six suppliers over a period of two years to supply antiretrovirals.
Over a quarter of Ethiopia’s Aids patients on drugs are not taking their medicine because of logistical problems but also due to religious beliefs.
Nearly three million people in the developing world are now on drugs to prevent their HIV infection becoming Aids, two years after the original deadline set by the World Health Organisation.
South Africa’s rural doctors have been thrust into the spotlight by the cases of Colin Pfaff, who sourced funding for antiretroviral drugs for pregnant women when the politicians failed to do so.
Nearly three-million people in the developing world are now on drugs to prevent their HIV infection becoming Aids.
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/ 17 October 2007
More than a third of patients on HIV medication in sub-Saharan Africa die or discontinue their treatment within two years of starting, a survey shows.
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/ 31 January 2007
The UNHCR has launched a new policy to ensure that HIV-positive refugees around the world have access to life-prolonging ARV medication.
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/ 8 November 2006
The government of Sierra Leone is faced with the challenge of stigma attached to HIV/Aids, which is derailing its efforts to supply ARVs.
On Monday Uganda became the latest African country to begin distributing free antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to HIV-positive people.