Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has called on the generic medicine industry to invest more in researching the long-term effects of ARVs.
HIV/Aids infection rates may increase during the Soccer World Cup, the South African National Aids Council said on Friday.
The government is looking into whether it would run out of funding for HIV/Aids drugs in this financial year, the health minister said on Friday.
Open letter from more international and domestic pressure groups condemns ”life-threatening” conditions at settlement outside Phnom Penh.
Fewer Zimbabweans are getting infected with Aids, and researchers speculate it’s due in part to a battered economy that’s leaving men short of money.
Africa has had ”extraordinary success” in the fight against HIV/Aids, according to the director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids.
SA should lead the way in using antiretroviral therapy (ART) as a means of HIV prevention, WHO official Dr Reuben Granich said on Monday.
Rates of HIV infection among gays in some African countries are 10 times that of the general male population, doctors said in the Lancet.
The high cost of drugs needed to treat Aids patients is putting the lives of thousands at risk, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) said on Monday.
SA is launching clinical trials of the first HIV/Aids vaccines created by a developing country, said Anthony Mbewu, head of the MRC.
Dumisani Rebombo had not been circumcised, did house chores considered girls’ work and was sick of being taunted for not being a man.
Rights activists claim HIV-positive women are being made infertile against their will by public health doctors.
One in four men in SA have admitted to rape and many confess to attacking more than one victim, according to a study by the Medical Research Council.
A new survey has shown that HIV prevalence in children aged between two and 14 had declined from 5,6% in 2002 to 2,5% in 2008.
Scientists have appealed to the World Health Organisation to publicly condemn homeopathy as a treatment for serious diseases, such as HIV/Aids.
A Swaziland member of Parliament who drew international criticism for his remarks on HIV/Aids, apologised repeatedly in Johannesburg on Thursday.
A new plan for fighting HIV/Aids is needed in sub-Saharan Africa, where most people with the possible deadly syndrome are unaware of their condition.
Helen Zille declined to comment on an attack by the ANC Youth League after she accused Jacob Zuma of potentially exposing his wives to HIV.
The ANC reacted with outrage on Tuesday after DA leader Helen Zille accused President Jacob Zuma of potentially exposing his wives to HIV.
A group of African first ladies began a two-day meeting in Los Angeles on Monday to forge US partnerships to try to improve health and education.
Activists say Aids-related deaths in the Mbeki era should be investigated. Qudsiya Karrim reports.
Only 4% of South Africans living with HIV in South Africa are receiving preventative therapy for tuberculosis and only 1% are being screened for TB.
When 32-year-old Talatu Umar tested positive two years ago after the death of her husband, she ruled out the possibility of ever marrying again.
Many councillors believe it would be political suicide to publicly disclose their HIV status, an Idasa study says.
Aids is killing so many politicians in Africa and is threatening the ability of governments to function properly, a researcher said on Tuesday.
Ngconde Balfour is disappointed that a court bid to block the release of a report on the death of an HIV-positive prisoner was dismissed on Friday.
Fifteen percent of South African school children between the ages of 12 and 17 years would knowingly spread HIV, according to a recent study.
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/ 20 February 2009
About 42% of pregnant women in Swaziland are infected with the HI virus, a jump of 3% since last year, according to a report released on Friday.
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/ 20 February 2009
Drug manufacturing companies have come forward to help government fill a shortfall of ARVs drugs at various facilities in the Free State.
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/ 11 February 2009
Sex with multiple partners is so entrenched in Southern Africa that it is a religion, a basic moral philosophy for most people here.
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/ 30 January 2009
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour was on Friday ordered to furnish a report on the death of an inmate to the Treatment Action Campaign.
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/ 23 January 2009
Many Zimbabwean women cross into Mozambique to escape the crisis in their home country, but a growing number turn to commercial sex to survive.