Every week more than 5000 adolescent girls and young women acquire HIV. And the vast majority of them live in southern Africa, write Deborah Baron and Sinead ... Read more »
For many years, the fight against HIV/Aids was led largely by international donors... It is time for governments across Africa... to step up and commit the political and financial ... Read more »
President Robert Mugabe, who on record described gays and lesbians as "worse than pigs and dogs", will address the 18th International Conference on STIs and Aids in Africa. ... Read more »
Whenever issues come up in life that are hard to share with family, friends or even health professionals, people in Ethiopia dial three popular digits - 952. Read more »
The HIV and Aids Tribunal has said that cases of employers forcing jobseekers to take HIV tests are illegal. Read more »
The challenges faced by people in poor communities means that they require services that can respond to a complex mix of challenges, writes Nonhlanhla Nxumalo for The Conversation ... Read more »
Condom use appears to be on the decline while the rate of new infections has been rising, but will a new approach make condoms cool to at risk teens? Read more »
The knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in terms of HIV prevention and related factors among South African students in sexual minorities have never before been studied," an expert ... Read more »
Zimbabwe's condom usage contributed to a reduction in HIV infections, the National Aids Council has revealed. Read more »
According to David Basangwa, a psychiatric consultant and executive director of Butabika Mental Hospital, at least 96 percent of HIV-positive patients develop symptoms of mental ... Read more »
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