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/ 21 November 2010
South Africans living with Aids are being robbed of their lifesaving drugs so that they can be mixed with marijuana and smoked.
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/ 10 November 2010
It’s no great medical breakthrough, just a simple colour-coded box packed with HIV drugs and pictures.
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/ 14 October 2010
The multibillion-dollar porn industry in the San Fernando has been thrown into crisis after one of its performers tested positive for HIV.
More lives are being saved from HIV/Aids than ever before and eight developing countries now give drug treatment to all those who need it.
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/ 29 September 2010
A record 1,2-million people in low- and middle-income countries started antiretroviral therapy for HIV/Aids in 2009, the WHO said on Tuesday.
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/ 19 September 2010
Success in halting infection in sub-Saharan Africa could falter as international aid starts to shrink, warns UNAids chief.
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/ 17 September 2010
Sub-Saharan Africa, the region worst affected by Aids, is leading a decline in new HIV infections, UNAids said on Friday.
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/ 10 September 2010
African doctors and rights activists are pressing their governments to spend more on health as part of a campaign to stop children from getting Aids.
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/ 9 September 2010
Thousands of Aids patients in India are not receiving treatment on time, underscoring huge challenges the country faces as it combats the syndrome.
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/ 2 September 2010
The chief of the UNAids agency says that global contributions to fighting the Aids pandemic are dropping off for the first time in 15 years.
Xola Skosana takes HIV test in front of congregation and encourages young members of the church to do the same.
<em>the Teacher</em> and BroadReach Healthcare explain key facts about the HI virus in the third part of a series
Advocates claim that the United Nations "has failed women", and that a new women’s agency was already lacking transparency.
The health minister wants to change perceptions
about South Africa to encourage people to offer to
help fight the HIV/Aids pandemic.
More than four million new HIV infections could be prevented in Eastern and Southern Africa by 2025 if male circumcision rates were increased to 80%.
South Africa is considering rolling out use of a vaginal gel which can protect women against HIV before it is officially licensed by drug regulators.
A breakthrough test of a vaginal gel to protect women against HIV unleashed a wave of optimism at the world Aids conference on Tuesday.
Report published in <i>Lancet</i> medical journal claims increased availability of pharmaceuticals would bring down infection rate.
Almost half of inmates in Russia’s notorious prison system are ill, many infected with HIV or with tuberculosis.
Almost 12% of the Mozambican population is living with HIV/Aids, a government survey released on Monday said.
Thousands marched to the US consulate in Johannesburg on Thursday to deliver a memorandum demanding that HIV/Aids funding not be cut.
Now is not the time to cut funding for HIV/Aids, say the TAC, MSF and Cosatu, among others.
Nurses are as good as doctors at monitoring treatment for Aids patients, and shifting this role to them could help ease a shortage of health workers.
On the mountain of the night in the kingdom in the sky, just space — no gimmicks — at Southern African tourism’s final frontier.
South African authorities busted a pyramid investment scheme on Tuesday involving a company offering HIV/Aids treatments.
Ten beauty contestants dressed in evening gowns and traditional dresses took to the catwalk to celebrate living positively with HIV in Botswana.
Anglo Coal shows how new HIV infections can be cut by half and how a management system can revolutionise the fight against the virus.
Aids activists attending WEF talks in Tanzania arrived in SA on Thursday afternoon after being detained and escorted to the airport by authorities.
Their collective wisdom is incalculable — and so is the collective burden they carry when families are torn apart by Aids.
President Jacob Zuma has buried Aids denialism with the public disclosure of his HIV/Aids test, Numsa said on Monday.
Ambitious South African HIV testing programme launched on Sunday could change the face of Aids across the whole of Africa.
Both President Jacob Zuma and his deputy, Kgalema Motlanthe, will be tested publicly for Aids at the launch of the HIV counselling campaign on Sunday.