President Robert Mugabe has launched a programme urging parliamentarians to lead by example in fighting HIV/Aids.
Drug supplies are running low and a lack of funding could reverse important progress made in Swaziland’s HIV/Aids crisis.
Great-sounding policies but no implementation and developing of societies most vulnerable.
Research reveals that rape survivors have little access to information about prophylaxis, a vital drug in minimising the chances of contracting HIV.
Health workers at a rural hospital describe paying for equipment, taxi fares and meals as part of providing care.
Their basic education has been blamed for not preparing them for their first sexual encounters
A deep-rural hospital has become a beacon of hope, thanks to dedicated individuals.
Research conducted in South Africa shows two thirds of the grade 6 learners surveyed did not know enough about HIV/Aids to protect their health.
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/ 3 February 2012
Nearly half of all pregnancies in South Africa involve teenagers, statistics reveal.
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/ 26 January 2012
An MSF report claims 15 000 Aids victims in Congo will likely die waiting for ARVs in the next three years because of "horrific" health care access.
South Africa is expected to make a dramatic turnaround in Aids due to a change in government policies, a UNAids official has said.
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/ 13 December 2011
<i>Mpintshi</i> volunteers are helping young people make life choices that will protect them against HIV.
The Young Communist League has dubbed Western Cape premier Helen Zille’s campaign of offering incentives to people testing for HIV/Aids as immoral.
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/ 30 November 2011
The number of new HIV/Aids cases in China is soaring, state media has reported, with infection rates among college students and older men rising.
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/ 30 November 2011
Stats SA has revealed that the number of deaths registered in 2009 dropped by 3.8% from 2008 with TB as the main cause of death by natural causes.
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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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/ 21 November 2011
The United Nations says access to HIV treatment has improved greatly in sub-Saharan African, leading to a steady drop in Aids-related deaths.
DA leader Helen Zille says South Africans must change their sexual practices and accept responsibility in stopping the spread of HIV.
Pope Benedict XVI has labelled Aids an "ethical problem" and condemned corruption as he laid out a vision for his church’s future in Africa.
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/ 8 November 2011
Botswana is looking to legalise prostitution in the conservative country in a bid to bring down one of the world’s highest HIV rates.
SA’s population hit 50-million this year, but the country’s population growth is considerably slower than that of Africa’s 39 high-fertility countries
The South African National Aids Council’s strategic plan is far too broad to be effective.
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/ 16 September 2011
The promotion, support and protection of breastfeeding is critical to turn the tide against child mortality.
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/ 8 September 2011
Financial giant Sanlam has launched a new education foundation to help equip young South Africans with the financial literacy to improve their lives.
The rate of new HIV infections continues to outpace prevention efforts, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Thursday.
Epidemics of HIV are emerging among gay and bisexual men in the Middle East and North Africa, researchers said.
A cheap, highly portable blood test has proven to be as accurate as expensive hospital-based analyses in detecting infectious diseases.
Hundreds of people with HIV took to the streets of Swaziland to protest over poor health service delivery and a reported shortage of ARV treatment.
Swaziland’s King Mswati III has called for his male subjects to get circumcised as he endorsed a campaign aimed at tackling the world’s highest HIV.
The partners of people who have HIV can protect themselves from infection by taking a once-daily pill, two studies have shown.
The final 24-month trial of a gel that researchers hope will help prevent HIV transmission is expected to start at the end of July or early August.