The world has 18 months left to reach targets that all United Nations member countries signed up to in 2021
The pandemic is still claiming lives in the Indian Ocean country due to lack of HIV prevention and treatment services
Zero discrimination is essential to if we are to change the fact that 7.8 million South Africans live with HIV, but 5.8 million people are on ARVs, highlighting a treatment gap
The Nomakhayas of Nqileni in the Eastern Cape give us a case study to replicate
Treatment Action Campaign and other civil society groups forced a reluctant Mbeki government to change its stance and roll out ARVs
On current trends, the world will not meet agreed global targets on Aids, the new UNAids report, Dangerous Inequalities, shows. Urgent action to disrupt the power imbalance of patriarchy can get the Aids response on track
Researchers find that 96% of health conferences are in rich countries and only four in 10 attendees are from poorer nations with the highest burden of disease
Setting new 90-90-90 targets for CD4 testing, cryptococcal antigen, and TB testing, and treatment, aligned to the WHO AHD package of care would be a positive step towards ending Aids deaths by 2030
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that vaccine development and testing timelines can be shrunk from decades to months, but not without shortcomings
Pandemic disrupts the supply of external condoms — and inner ones are unknown and in short supply
A leading Kenyan public health and community-based health care specialist knows the importance of local level involvement, particularly for epidemics and pandemics
Controlling Covid-19 may worsen Africa’s HIV epidemic by stopping state and civil society health services built up over 35 years
The World Health Organization launches an inquiry after claims of ‘legendary’ corruption, including racism and sexism.
The investigation of an independent panel recommends reviewing whether UNAids executive director Michel Sidibé should continue in his role.
A report by UNAids has revealed that SA’s antiretroviral coverage has greatly increased in the last two decades, but remains short of global targets.
A report by UNAids has revealed that SA’s antiretroviral coverage has greatly increased in the last two decades, but remains short of global targets.
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/ 24 November 2015
A report by UNAids has revealed that SA’s antiretroviral coverage has greatly increased in the last two decades, but remains short of global targets.
A report by UNAids has revealed that SA’s antiretroviral coverage has greatly increased in the last two decades, but remains short of global targets.
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/ 27 November 2014
The health minister and UNAids are jumping the gun by not consulting activists.
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/ 18 November 2014
The epidemic could end in 15 years if "fast-track targets" are accelerated in the next six years – if not, infection rates could continue to rise.
We feature four HIV positive women in their 40s who fit the profile of a typical M&G reader.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has partnered with SA institutions to develop new medicines and vaccines for HIV, TB and malaria.
Between 2004 and 2012, the number of new HIV infections have decreased from an estimated 540 000 to 370 000, shows a UNAids report.
Gospel and RnB musician Loyiso Bala has been appointed as the national goodwill ambassador for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids.
China plans to ban HIV-positive people from spas, hot springs and public bathhouses, provoking UN condemnation and outrage from human rights groups.
South Africa is expected to make a dramatic turnaround in Aids due to a change in government policies, a UNAids official has said.
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/ 30 November 2011
UN health agencies say extraordinary progress has been made in the fight against Aids but a funding crisis is putting those gains at risk.
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/ 21 November 2011
The United Nations says access to HIV treatment has improved greatly in sub-Saharan African, leading to a steady drop in Aids-related deaths.
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/ 19 September 2010
Success in halting infection in sub-Saharan Africa could falter as international aid starts to shrink, warns UNAids chief.
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/ 17 September 2010
Sub-Saharan Africa, the region worst affected by Aids, is leading a decline in new HIV infections, UNAids said on Friday.
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/ 2 September 2010
The chief of the UNAids agency says that global contributions to fighting the Aids pandemic are dropping off for the first time in 15 years.
Supporters of three HIV-positive women in Namibia who say they were sterilized without their consent have held protests to support the women.