The government is considering increasing the value of social grants in order to soften the blow of high food prices.
South Africa has the world’s fourth-highest TB burden and the national response is in many cases a shambles.
KwaZulu-Natal’s health minister Peggy Nkonyeni has been accused by the Treatment Action Campaign of orchestrating a ”witch-hunt” against two doctors.
SA Aids patients in Durban are under siege from drug addicts who rob them of their antiretroviral treatment to get high.
ANC leader Jacob Zuma on Sunday laid down the law for the ANC Youth League at the organisation’s national congress in Johannesburg.
The Department of Health awarded a R3,615-billion tender to six suppliers over a period of two years to supply antiretrovirals.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela charmed Queen Elizabeth II as she welcomed him to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday.
Over a quarter of Ethiopia’s Aids patients on drugs are not taking their medicine because of logistical problems but also due to religious beliefs.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela arrived in Britain on Monday ahead of a 90th birthday concert in his honour in London’s Hyde Park.
Mozambique’s business sector is currently feeling the consequences of HIV/Aids through the increased absence of workers.
The spread of HIV in Mozambique has hit the economy and is heightening poverty, the United Nations chief representative in the country said on Friday.
The Cape High Court ruling that vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath was acting illegally was a victory for the rule of law, the TAC said on Friday.
The woman with the microphone and brightly coloured knit tam-o’-shanter is speaking in Nelson Mandela’s name as she presses villagers to be honest about HIV/Aids.
The United Nations has systematically exaggerated the scale of the Aids pandemic and the risk of the HIV virus affecting heterosexuals, says Professor James Chin, a former senior Aids official with the World Health Organisation.
Nearly three million people in the developing world are now on drugs to prevent their HIV infection becoming Aids, two years after the original deadline set by the World Health Organisation.
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/ 21 November 2007
China’s capital has registered 973 new HIV/Aids cases so far this year, a jump of more than 50% from 2006, state media reported on Wednesday.
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/ 17 January 2007
China is suffering its biggest wave of syphilis in more than 50 years as a cocktail of changing sexual mores and weakening healthcare takes its toll.
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/ 30 November 2006
Zackie Achmat, chairperson of the TAC and South Africa’s most famous purveyor of the slogan ”HIV-positive”, has been an activist for 30 years.
Sephiwe Shabange (22) sat patiently with four other men in a busy clinic in Mbabane, Swaziland.
More than 15-million children in sub-Saharan Africa will have lost one or both parents to Aids by 2010.
The cash earmarked to fight the Aids pandemic is often not making it to the people who need it most.
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/ 15 February 2006
South Africa’s Ministry of Health has put its support behind people choosing to use traditional HIV/Aids treatments.
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/ 8 February 2006
New York’s health department is to release what may be the world’s first municipally branded condom.
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/ 18 January 2006
American first lady Laura Bush on Sunday began her four-day trip to West Africa full of praise for the continent’s first elected woman president.
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/ 14 September 2005
Officials and Aids organisations are working to provide care to the nearly 8 000 HIV-positive people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
A senior United Nations official has accused President George W Bush of “doing damage to Africa” by cutting funding for condoms.
Uganda, considered a beacon in Africa for its Aids-beating policies, is adopting sexual abstinence-only programmes.
On Thursday the European Commission pledged €15-million (R121-million) to Zimbabwe and €12-million (R97-million) to Colombia.
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/ 18 January 2005
The new loveLife campaign for 2005 was launched last week. It is again a message that is hard to understand.
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/ 15 December 2004
One Ethiopian child in 10 is an orphan, according to a report by the United Nations, the government and the Save the Children NGO.
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/ 8 December 2004
GlaxoSmithKline has granted a fourth voluntary licence to a South African generics firm to market its anti-Aids medicines.
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/ 10 November 2004
Women in India, home to the world’s second-largest HIV population after South Africa, are becoming more vulnerable to Aids.