Hiv Statistics
latest news & developments
Home visits give instant HIV results and data set to guide more than a dozen African countries’ programmes
The population assessments of the epidemic in sub-Sahara yields information of benefit to patients and to each nation’s plan of action
Comment: Bring back the lost girls
This country must find ways to keep girls in school and educate them about HIV prevention.
People with HIV pay more for life insurance – if they can get it
Their life expectancy is almost as high as those who are HIV free, yet they pay much more.
Aids takes heavier toll on men
A study published in the latest edition of a leading medical journal explains why the survival rate of HIV-positive women is higher than that of men.
Study shows mounting Aids toll in Swaziland
Swaziland’s death rate more than doubled in a decade, proof of the toll of Aids, statisticians in this southern African kingdom said on Wednesday.
G8 must keep Aids promise
Civil society organisations make a fresh appeal for G8 to fulfil its Aids promises.
Riding HIV’s superhighway
HIV Aids is not a disease of poverty, but a result of a culture of concurrent sexual relationships.
HIV wipes out Namibia’s gains in reducing child mortality
The country was well on its way to reducing child mortality, but over the past decade the pandemic has annulled previous gains.
Gauteng’s antenatal HIV-rate drops
HIV prevalence rates among pregnant women dropped 2,3% in Gauteng between 2004 and 2006, a provincial public-health profile report has found.
Jury still out on Aids infection levels
The huge variation in levels of HIV infection among pregnant women across SA was clearly demonstrated in the latest government report on the epidemic.