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.
30 Years after the first cases of Aids were reported, 17 since the end of apartheid — here’s a story about how the virus has helped bridge division.
The successes of SA’s first public-sector ARV programme shows governments what can be achieved ahead of the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Aids.
About 1.4-million South Africans with HIV/Aids are receiving ARVs — a figure closer to the target set by the present national strategic plan.
African leaders at the UN Aids summit have asked for money to deal with the pandemic and to reach the Millenium Development Goals.
TB and HIV-infected patients who can’t pay for high-end medical insurance but can afford GP visits opt for state care, which offers better treatment.
Is the government a champion of the rights of sexual minorities?
HIV prevention, the mainstay of the response to the HIV epidemic, is in danger of falling off the global agenda.
Circumcision is a physical event that always has cultural significance, writes <b>Deborah Ewing</b> and <b>Pieter Fourie</b>.
An active approach to identifying TB at the community level is needed in a country with one of the highest rates of the disease in the world.
Young South Africans do not perceive themselves to be at risk of contracting HIV, which make calls for innovative education more urgent.
The pandemic has placed a strain on education. <b>Lesley Wood</b> gives teachers some pointers on how to deal with this subject.
Messages from years of Aids campaigns are finally filtering down to the dingy streets of Johannesburg where sex workers turn tricks.
In a venture aimed at getting tomorrow’s leaders tested today, a university-based HIV counselling and testing campaign has been launched.
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/ 9 February 2011
Fear of infection and social change have driven a huge decline in HIV rates in Zimbabwe, offering important lessons on how to fight the Aids pandemic.
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/ 3 February 2011
Nearly three million lives have been saved by HIV/Aids treatment, according to a new book commissioned by the United Nations.
South Africa has received a major boost to fight Aids, TB and malaria, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Sunday.
Contradictory statements issued by department of health officials about the controversial Tara KLamp, leaves many scratching their heads.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and SA Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane have signed an agreement to bolster the fight against Aids in SA.
There has been a "massive reduction" in the prices of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, according to Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.