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/ 24 September 2008
Michael Keating reports on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals at the midpoint.
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/ 17 September 2008
The Gauteng health department has launched an investigation into allegations that HIV-positive patients smoked an ARV drug at Hammanskraal Clinic.
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/ 17 September 2008
An SA study has shown that mortality among TB and HIV co-infected patients can be reduced by 55%, if ART is provided with TB treatment.
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/ 17 September 2008
It is never too late to launch an effective HIV/Aids prevention campaign, writes Robert Colman.
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/ 14 September 2008
Vitamin entreprenur Matthias Rath has dropped a million-pound libel claim against the Guardian over his activities.
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/ 11 September 2008
HIV prevalence rates among pregnant women dropped 2,3% in Gauteng between 2004 and 2006, a provincial public-health profile report has found.
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/ 10 September 2008
The Health Department is to convene an ”urgent expert meeting” following controversy surrounding its 2007 antenatal survey, it announced on Wednesday.
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/ 10 September 2008
The huge variation in levels of HIV infection among pregnant women across SA was clearly demonstrated in the latest government report on the epidemic.
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/ 4 September 2008
Swaziland and its king are throwing a joint 40th birthday bash this weekend, but the mood is far from celebratory in this land of paupers and princes.
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/ 3 September 2008
HIV/Aids testing and treatment need more debate and a more sophisticated understanding, a seminar at the Institute of Security Studies heard.
Traditional sexual practices including polygamy and promiscuity are driving rampant HIV-Aids in Swaziland where nearly 40% of adults are infected.
”HIV/Aids is about sex; TB is about sputum,” said Dr Francois Venter, the head of the HIV Clinicians’ Society, at a debate on tuberculosis this week.
Swazi women have challenged King Mswati III on the monarchy’s lavish lifestyle in the face of abject poverty and disease.
Nosimilo Ndlovu reports on community efforts to deal with the food crisis from both a South African and Malawian point of view.
The prevalence in HIV is showing signs of decreasing, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Monday.
More than 1 500 mostly HIV-positive women staged an unprecedented protest in Swaziland on Thursday against a foreign shopping tour.
Is being HIV-positive a disability? Nosimilo Ndlovu finds an organisation which says it is.
This is the story of a village, spurred by two extraordinary women, rising from the depths of the Aids pandemic to build a future for itself.
Ugandan authorities have launched a mass circumcision drive with the hope it will reduce HIV/Aids rates in the East African country.
SA’s biggest medical aid, Discovery Health, refuses to pay for voluntary male circumcision, despite experts saying its helps reduces HIV infections.
Pharmaceutical company Adcock Ingram urgently recalled two batches of its antiretroviral products on Friday due to a packaging error.
A 41-year-old woman who had become isolated over rumours that she was HIV-positive, killed her four children and then committed suicide at Lusikisiki.
Former United States president Bill Clinton was to take centre stage at the International Aids Conference in Mexico on Monday.
Truckers are often blamed for spreading HIV, but new research suggests that they have been misunderstood.
At least 510 000 South Africans enrolled for the antiretroviral treatment (ART), the Deputy Minister of Social Development said on Sunday.
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has left for Mexico City to attend the United Nations XVII International Aids Conference.
The HIV/Aids pandemic appears to be slowing, as evidence emerges of more cautious sexual behaviour and improved treatment.
A funding shortfall could hurt HIV-positive South African prisoners in need of antiretroviral drugs, said a senior correctional services official.
The income of the poorest South Africans has improved in real terms over the past 14 years, according to government data released on Thursday.
Researcher Joanna Vearey speaks about the link between international migrants’ access to antiretrovirals and their ability to survive in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday on Friday as a widely revered statesman, but SA faces a host of problems that challenge his dream.
SA topped a global sex report on sexual protection against sexually transmitted infections and HIV/Aids, condom maker Durex said on Thursday.