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/ 16 December 2008
A squirrel-sized lemur from Madagascar has given scientists new evidence about the evolutionary history of HIV-related viruses.
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/ 3 December 2008
A clinical trial which could benefit Aids patients is about to lose its funding because the Medicines Control Council won’t answer its phones.
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/ 3 December 2008
Funding for the fight against HIV/Aids may be hit by the current financial crisis, a World Bank economist told a conference on Wednesday.
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/ 1 December 2008
Governments across the globe on Monday – World Aids Day — pledged to step up the fight against HIV.
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/ 1 December 2008
Use a condom with each partner, and every time you have sex, Deputy President Baleka Mbete said on Monday.
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/ 1 December 2008
As World Aids Day is marked on Monday, the fight against the syndrome remains stymied by the dearth of adequate treatment in poor countries.
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/ 30 November 2008
The new face of Aids in China is a shy man with a heavy provincial accent, a weathered face and the rough hands of a manual worker.
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/ 30 November 2008
Cuts to Aids prevention programmes because of the global financial crisis could lead to a surge in HIV infections, the United Nations says.
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/ 28 November 2008
Clinical testing of the first HIV vaccine developed in Africa will start in the US next week, the SA Aids Vaccine Initiative said on Friday.
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/ 27 November 2008
The Aids policies of Thabo Mbeki’s government were responsible for the avoidable deaths of a third of a million people, according to research.
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/ 21 November 2008
HIV is thought to have a kill rate of close to 100%, higher than even the notorious haemorrhagic diseases such as Ebola.
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/ 21 November 2008
Rarely in South Africa can a minister have come to power carrying such a weight of expectation as Barbara Hogan.
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/ 13 November 2008
Chile’s public health system may have failed to notify at least 512 people that they were infected with HIV/Aids, said Health Minister Alvaro Erazo.
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/ 6 November 2008
An aid agency has decided against giving new healthcare funds to Zimbabwe to fight HIV/Aids until the country’s central bank returns -million.
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/ 6 November 2008
It is already too late to reverse the damage humans have done to the environment, says Mozambican scientist Filipe Lucio.
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/ 5 November 2008
The most basic way of preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV appears to cause resistance to one of the key anti-HIV drugs in women.
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/ 30 October 2008
New procedure throws lifeline to HIV-positive renal patients.
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/ 30 October 2008
Here is a ”good news” story about the fight against HIV/Aids: it’s about African broadcasters aligning their power to make a difference.
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/ 27 October 2008
Medical researchers on Sunday unveiled clinical trials of new anti-Aids drug that better controls the spread of the deadly syndrome.
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/ 23 October 2008
SA on Wednesday urged Red Cross societies in Africa to cooperate to rid the continent of the ”burden” of diseases, poverty and armed conflicts.
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/ 20 October 2008
Africa should put more effort and resources into the fight against HIV/Aids, Health Minister Barbara Hogan said on Monday.
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/ 19 October 2008
A year after a setback in the hunt for an HIV/Aids vaccine, researchers say their defeats have forced them to look for new ways of creating a defence.
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/ 16 October 2008
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived on Thursday in Mozambique to launch a project to make antiretrovirals in the country.
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/ 15 October 2008
Like many people,Ronald Suresh Roberts may think Thabo Mbeki’s dissident views on Aids ”flat earth crap”.
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/ 13 October 2008
SA’s new health minister, Barbara Hogan, has appealed to scientists to intensify efforts to find an Aids vaccine.
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/ 12 October 2008
Malawi has suspended extra monthly payments to its 38 000 HIV-positive civil servants, a government official said on Saturday.
Like many cultural events, a male circumcision ceremony in eastern Uganda has its share of governing rules.
France’s Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for their discovery of the HIV virus.
South Africa’s new Health Minister, Barbara Hogan, vowed on Thursday to make Aids a top priority after years of controversy over her predecessor.
When her baby turned blue, Nivetha Biju rushed the child to the emergency room of an Indian hospital and watched as the baby lost consciousness.
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/ 30 September 2008
The antenatal HIV survey for 2007 showed a possible fall in the percentage of HIV among pregnant women attending public sector antenatal facilities.
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/ 25 September 2008
One of the key anti-TB drugs, rifampicin, increases the speed at which one class of ARVs is broken down by the body.