THE Young Communist League (YCL) yesterday repeated its call that former president Thabo Mbeki be prosecuted for AIDS-related deaths, saying it sided with victims rather than critics of the proposed court action, including the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League.
The United State's President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has increased funding for HIV/AIDS in Africa from $2.3 billion in 2004 to $6.6 billion in 2009.
Thanks to the international recession, donors are either decreasing or opting not to increase their funding of AIDS treatment. This will have devastating effects on poorer countries that are largely dependent on foreign aid.
HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals.
The South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) symposium currently taking place in Johannesburg is trying to find ways to use the 2010 FIFA World Cup as a platform to advance awareness about HIV and AIDS.
It is one of the world's oldest professions, dating so far back that it is even mentioned in the Bible. But in the deeply cultural and religious country of Swaziland, Senator Thuli Msane stirred a hornet's nest when she publicly challenged a new strict bill opposing prostitution.
The South African cabinet has approved a new policy prohibiting discrimination against soldiers and would-be recruits on the basis of their HIV status.
The Wa Municipality recorded a drop in HIV prevalence rate from 5.8 percent to 2.0 per cent, a sentinel survey report from the Ministry of Health has indicated.
In less than seven months South Africa will host the world's biggest single sporting event - the FIFA World Cup. The chance to reach millions of local and visiting football fans presents a golden opportunity, not only for the country's business and tourism sectors, but also for its efforts to combat HIV/AIDS.
Universal access to antiretrovirals in poor countries is under threat as donors reduce funding for AIDS programmes, warns Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
There is greater frankness today about development policy failures in Africa. It was reflected in President Barack Obama’s speech in Accra, Ghana on July 11 when he stated: "Development depends on good governance. That is the ingredient that has been missing in far too many places for far too long."
High school students in the Niger capital, Niamey, learned to put HIV/AIDS and reproductive health in a broader context during a recent essay contest.
Swaziland not only has the world's highest HIV prevalence rate, it now also has the highest tuberculosis (TB) rate, but health officials warn that not enough is being done to integrate TB and HIV services.
AN aid agency has warned that donor fatigue is threatening to reverse HIV/Aids programmes in developing countries including Zimbabwe. Medicines San Frontiers (MSF) in a recently released report titled Punishing Success? says the success in the fight against the pandemic had largely depended on donors.
OVER 900,000 Nigerians suffering from the dreaded HIV/AIDS are in dire need of regular supply of antiretroviral drugs, the National Action Committee Against Aids (NACA), has said.
