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/ 18 August 2006

World focus on second-line Aids drugs

Medical humanitarian organisation, Médécins Sans Frontières (MSF), continues to be the lone voice sounding the alarm about the cost and availability of newer Aids medicines in developing countries. Several speakers at the start of the International Aids Conference in Toronto, Canada, suggested that the cost of Aids drugs is no longer a major barrier to access.

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/ 24 January 2002

69% of Carletonville’s sex workers are HIV

HEALTH education programmes and free condom distribution have not stopped South African commercial sex workers from having unprotected sex, a study has found. A study conducted by the London School of Economics found that 69% of local commercial sex workers (CSWs) in the South African gold mining community of Carletonville are HIV positive. The study […]