A report by UNAids has revealed that SA’s antiretroviral coverage has greatly increased in the last two decades, but remains short of global targets.
A report by UNAids has revealed that SA’s antiretroviral coverage has greatly increased in the last two decades, but remains short of global targets.
A report by UNAids has revealed that SA’s antiretroviral coverage has greatly increased in the last two decades, but remains short of global targets.
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/ 18 December 2009
Researchers and advocates have singled out South Africa’s under-staffed and overcrowded prisons as hotbeds for the transmission of HIV and TB.
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/ 14 December 2009
New research has concluded that the vaginal microbicide gel, PRO 2000, does not prevent HIV infection in women, a study released on Monday said.
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/ 6 December 2009
An HIV-positive man in New Zealand has admitted injecting his blood into his sleeping wife and infecting her with the virus which can cause Aids.
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/ 6 December 2009
The Football for Hope centre in Cape Town — one of 20 across Africa — is out to teach kids about more than just the ”beautiful game”.
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/ 3 December 2009
Revised guidelines for access to ARVs cast a wider net than before, but systemic change is needed to for the new protocol to have an impact.
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/ 2 December 2009
Thabo Mbeki should be held accountable for his role in the HIV/Aids pandemic, the Young Communist League of South Africa said on Wednesday.
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/ 2 December 2009
The South African Medical Association (Sama) on Wednesday endorsed President Jacob Zuma’s HIV/Aids strategy.
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/ 2 December 2009
South Africa announced ambitious new plans on Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women.
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/ 1 December 2009
President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday announced new measures to expand South Africa’s response to HIV/Aids.
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/ 1 December 2009
SA has more people living with Aids than any other country, but it also has a new government determined to end the crisis, the UN says.
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/ 30 November 2009
While South Africa’s HIV-infection rate may have stabilised, experts warn that the slow response to the pandemic has triggered a time bomb.
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/ 24 November 2009
Pointing fingers at the administration of former president Thabo Mbeki is not helpful in dealing with SA’s Aids problems, Desmond Tutu says.
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/ 24 November 2009
HIV/Aids has now killed 25-million people around the world but the number of new infections is slowing sharply, the UN said in its annual report.
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/ 24 November 2009
Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota has described calls for former president Thabo Mbeki to be charged with genocide as irresponsible.
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/ 20 November 2009
A thermal massage bed, said to cure Aids patients, is under investigation by the Health Ministry, it was reported on Friday.
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/ 16 November 2009
When Robin Webb lived in New York City, he was treated by HIV specialists and had access to counseling and nutritional programmes.
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/ 13 November 2009
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has undertaken to investigate the cases of HIV-infected patients allegedly refused antiretroviral treatment.
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/ 11 November 2009
The SA Medical Association is ”gravely concerned” about HIV/Aids statistics, which show a huge Aids-related leap in South Africa’s death rate.
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/ 10 November 2009
South Africa’s death rate doubled over the last decade due to the spread of Aids, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Tuesday.
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/ 30 October 2009
Free State health minister Sisi Mabe is adamant that there’s “no shortage” of antiretroviral drugs in the Free State. Read the interview.
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/ 12 October 2009
Haemophiliacs in Taiwan and Hong Kong have been given permission to sue a multinational drugs firm over allegations that they contracted HIV.
HIV prevalence among pregnant women has stabilised at about 29%, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Monday.
New HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa are growing twice as quickly as antiretroviral drugs are rolled out, UNAids said on Wednesday.
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/ 30 September 2009
Access to drugs, counselling and testing for HIV/Aids has increased, but there were still 2,7-million new infections in 2007, a UN report says.
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/ 22 September 2009
Malawi has received a -million grant from the World Bank to prevent new HIV infections, the bank said on Tuesday.
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/ 15 September 2009
SA won’t meet a target of providing life-prolonging drugs to 80% of people living with HIV/Aids by 2011, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says.
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/ 11 September 2009
SA is lagging behind the rest of Africa with its HIV/Aids campaigns because it talks too much and acts too slowly, the health minister says.
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/ 7 September 2009
Leading UK and international organisations have written to Britain’s largest drug company urging it to pool its patents on HIV medicines.
SA’s government must provide better leadership to ease high rates of violence and improve the healthcare system to fight HIV/Aids, a report said.