Community health workers are bringing healthcare to the homes of HIV-infected pregnant women in rural Cameroon. It has saved many babies.
We are not there yet, but experts are optimistic about a jab to prevent HIV coming to market in the near future.
Truvada is available in SA’s private health sector and is in the process of being expanded to the public sector. Mia Malan talks PrEP with Kevin Rebe.
Tuberculosis kills more people than HIV. Show your support for people with TB by joining the WHO’s Unmask Stigma Challenge on World TB Day.
Report says alcohol use fuels an already unequal power relationship between men and women, resulting in several negative outcomes.
The ex-president will be judged harshly for his unrepentant stance over an estimated 300 000 HIV-related deaths, the activist organisation says.
Traditional and Western healers team up to treat patients with HIV and tuberculosis because many people consult more than one health system.
Ordering women to stay virgins and not wear minis is akin to saying sex is a solo act
If we look at the national averages of condom use, nearly every sexually active person is part of the at-risk populations.
South Africa has become only the second country in the world to allow widespread access to groundbreaking HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis medication.
South Africa lost nearly 100 000 people to TB last year – three-quarters of whom were HIV-positive. Reducing the burden will benefit the economy.
Our failure to adequately engage men with health services reduces the effectiveness of the many impressive, new HIV prevention breakthroughs.
The health minister has stressed the importance of improving tuberculosis treatment so as to help mitigate the drastic impact of TB-HIV co-infection.
South Africans are waiting and willing to help but the Medicines Control Council drags its heels.
December 1 is #WorldAisDay: HIV was discovered more than 30 years ago. Why do we still stigmatise HIV-infected people?
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/ 20 November 2015
But ridding the planet of curable and preventable tuberculosis will tax the world’s existing resources.
Why did the actor only have the courage to announce his status this week, four years after he was diagnosed with HIV?
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/ 3 November 2015
A report notes that TB rates sky-rocketed in the 1990s fuelled by the HIV epidemic, and warns of a similar situation with diabetes-related TB.
Africa Check dissects a report claiming that the HIV prevalence rate among students is nearly four times the national estimate.
The Treatment Action Campaign believes antiretroviral treatment should be offered to all HIV-positive citizens, not just those with low CD4 counts.
With last year’s provincial medical services data now available, Africa Check questions the Free State health’s assertions of "significant progress".
If the progress we see today is anything to go by, it means we are closer than ever to having an HIV vaccine.
HIV-positive pregnant women get sound advice from mothers who can empathise.
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/ 24 February 2015
The search for an anti-HIV microbicide continues, after a new trial has refuted the results of a previous study that found one to be effective.
Researchers have developed a dongle and an app that can quickly screen for the virus and other sexually transmitted infections like syphilis.
Poor patients will be the biggest casualty if the National Health Laboratory Service collapses.
Hospitals throughout Gauteng ran out of essential medicines in recent weeks, including a life-saving drug for people with Aids called Amphotericin B.
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/ 27 November 2014
The health minister and UNAids are jumping the gun by not consulting activists.
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/ 12 November 2014
South Africa was the first African country to introduce the expensive but effective pneumococcal vaccine, Prevenar, into its immunisation programme.
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/ 11 November 2014
Durban’s 48.2% HIV rate among MSM is more than SA’s highest infection rate – 37.4% among pregnant women in Kwazulu-Natal.
A French team of scientists have proposed a process called "endogenisation", believed to have neutralised other viruses in humans in the past.
Pregnant women have spoken out about nurses forcing them to undergo testing without their informed consent.