The Global Fund to fight HIV, TB and Malaria says because of the country's serious mismanagement of funds it has no option but to decrease funding. Read more »
In the wake of a major study showing malaria deaths are twice what everybody thought comes a WHO study showing the highest levels of drug-resistant TB yet. Read more »
Africans tracking the worldwide HIV epidemic have not found much to celebrate since Aids began ravaging the continent 30 years ago, but researchers are optimistic that they are ... Read more »
The lives of thousands of HIV-positive people in the DRC are at risk as the country faces declining donor funding and a severe shortage of HIV treatment, an NGO warns. Read more »
Hundreds of HIV patients who may have been exposed to fake medicines are yet to receive medical care. Read more »
Billions of people are marking yet another World Aids Day - this one themed "Getting to Zero", for zero Aids-related deaths, zero new infections, and zero stigma and ... Read more »
The government has launched a new HIV/Aids campaign focusing on the transport industry, especially long distance truck drivers. Read more »
Access to HIV treatment has improved greatly in sub-Saharan Africa, the region worst hit by the Aids epidemic, leading to a steady drop in deaths, the United Nations reports. Read more »
In the past two years, South Africa has made significant investment in combating HIV and "the impact is beginning to show", according to the UNAIDS report. Around 95 percent of ... Read more »
A lack of legislation stipulating a minimum age at which boys can attend an initiation school and be circumcised has seen boys as young as 12 dropping out of school and heading for ... Read more »
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