The HIV pandemic isn’t going anywhere until a cure is found. In the meantime, HIV clinicians say South Africa should protect its victories
Today, SA boasts the world’s largest HIV treatment programme, but 3.2-million people who need ARVs still aren’t on them. Here’s how to fix that.
Our Laura Lopez Gonzalez takes you inside SA’s national HIV and TB plan in just two minutes.
Health department admits HIV testing kits ran low, but says kits were reshuffled between facilities and provinces to avoid stock-outs.
It starts with a swab but does it end with a diagnosis? Why the trickiest part of DIY HIV testing happens after the test.
One in two people living with HIV still aren’t on treatment, could DIY testing be the solution?
The World Health Organisation hopes take-home tests will increase the number of the people who know their HIV status
The population assessments of the epidemic in sub-Sahara yields information of benefit to patients and to each nation’s plan of action
Technology has cut diagnosis waiting times, getting infants on to treatment sooner.
People in rural Nigeria are afraid of being isolated due to their HIV status and don’t access treatment.
Gender imbalances in intimate relationships make it difficult for women to decide when, if at all, to have children.
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/ 30 November 2014
Although 65% of South Africans reportedly have been tested for HIV at least once, annual testing figures are much lower.
Despite the stereotypes, there is a pressing need for men to play more of a role in HIV support.
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/ 24 January 2014
Government facilities are trumping their larnier colleagues in providing HIV services.
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/ 13 December 2013
KwaZulu-Natal traffic officers have allegedly stopped drivers at the Mooi River Toll plaza on the N3 and forced them to take HIV tests.
As a result of an NGO in the Eastern Cape using incentives to encourage people to check their status, HIV testing has tripled in four villages.
Many HIV survivors did not expect to live to become elderly, and their retirement years are bleak and lonely, writes Sarah Bosely.
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/ 16 February 2011
The lack of privacy at schools means that HIV tests on schoolchildren there must not proceed without proper planning and protection of human rights.
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/ 14 February 2011
Children’s rights experts and activists have welcomed government proposals offer HIV tests in schools.
President Jacob Zuma revealed his HIV status on Sunday as he launched a scaled-up counselling and testing campaign aimed at stemming the pandemic.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has said he will not make his HIV test results public as that would put pressure on people who did not follow suit.
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/ 18 December 2009
No one can dispute Promise Mthembu’s assertion that we still have a long way to go towards the true empowerment of women, with or without HIV.
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/ 13 November 2009
President Jacob Zuma will publicly take an HIV test on World Aids Day, as part of a major new campaign by government.
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/ 4 February 1994
The mining industry’s fledgling Aids agreement has struck its first rock.