Africa: After ECHO, Let's Find Out Why Women Are Not Using Barrier Methods

So, the Evidence for Contraceptive Options and HIV Outcome (ECHO) study has found no significant difference in risk of HIV acquisition among women using one of three most methods… Read more »

Africa: Three of the Most Used Contraceptives Don't Increase HIV Risk - ECHO Study

Using Depo-provera will not increase women's chances of acquiring HIV, the Evidence for Contraceptive Options and HIV Outcome (ECHO) scientists have revealed at the SA AIDS… Read more »

Africa: This Contraception Study Hopes to Put HIV Risk Question to Rest

On June 13, at 2pm, Evidence for Contraceptive Options and HIV Outcome (ECHO) scientists will announce if there is truly an increased risk of HIV acquisition associated with use of… Read more »

Southern Africa: Major New Study Points Way to Cut HIV Infections

Visiting people in their homes to offer them HIV tests, and referring those who test positive to local clinics, can significantly reduce new infections in a community, according to… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Meet The Teenagers Making an Aids-Free Zimbabwe a Reality

An AIDS-free generation once seemed like a far-off dream but with the help of organisations like Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) the dream is now becoming a reality. Melody Chironda… Read more »

Zimbabwe: How MSF's Rural Programme for HIV+ Villagers Has Worked

Medecins Sans Frontiers Director in Zimbabwe Bjørn Nissen talks about the importance of the Mwenezi project, the adolescent projects in Mbare and shares the challenges of… Read more »

Zimbabwe: The Struggle to End HIV Epidemic in Rural Mwenezi

On the steep hills and mountains of Mwenezi - a rural district situated in southern Zimbabwe - is where you find hundreds of villagers living with some of the highest rates of HIV… Read more »

Africa: Children and HIV/Aids - 'We Need to Talk About Men's Power Over Girls'

360,000 adolescents are projected to die of AIDS-related diseases between 2018 and 2030. This means 76 adolescent deaths every day – without additional investment in HIV… Read more »

Africa: Namibia's Health Minister Dr Bernard Haufiku on How HIV Testing is Key

What the Namibian Health Minister, Dr Bernard Haufiku, said about fighting HIV/Aids in his country: Read more »

Namibia: First Lady Monica Geingos Receives World Without Aids Award

The first lady of Namibia, Monica Geingos, and singer and political activist Sir Bob Geldof have won the 2018 World Without AIDS Award. Read more »

South Africa: World's Largest HIV Prevention Trial Wraps Up Door-to-Door Testing

One of the crucial aspects of the largest HIV prevention trial in the world is nearing an end, with HIV counsellors wrapping up four years of door-to-door visits to many thousands… Read more »

Africa: We Can Lead The Way in Ending Aids, Malaria and TB

In September, world leaders pledged nearly US$13 billion to tackle some of the world's deadliest diseases through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria. In a… Read more »

Africa: Over 30 Years of HIV: What We've Learned and the Road Ahead

As someone who has been involved in HIV/AIDS prevention and control for years, I vividly remember a time the epidemic seemed unsolvable, globally and in Africa. Read more »

Africa: Africans Give Govts Failing Marks On Power, Water Supplies

Although two of every three Africans believe their governments are performing well in the fight against HIV and Aids, fewer approve of their delivery of basic health services and… Read more »

Zambia: Activist Questions Sustainability of Zambia's HIV Funding Plan

Zambia's government says it has met the challenge raised in the 2001 Abuja Declaration for African countries to spend at least 15 percent of their annual budgets on health care.… Read more »

Zambia: Chief Advocates Circumcision to Prevent HIV

As the influential leader of Zambia's Kaonde people, Chief Jonathan Eshiloni Mumena's decision to undergo male circumcision was nothing short of a public health practitioner's… Read more »

Africa: An Africa Fit for Women and Girls

I believe in an Africa that is fit for women and girls; that protects their well-being and creates a supportive environment for them to realise their aspirations. As I look at the… Read more »

Africa: 'It's the Turn of the African Woman'

Toyin Ojora-Saraki, founder and president of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, a maternal, newborn and child health and empowerment organization, has dedicated more than 20 years to… Read more »

South Africa: Why Doesn't Everyone Have TB?

"It's complex" is a phrase that crops up frequently when asking health specialists to explain why South Africa is struggling to control tuberculosis. Read more »

Africa: The Fight Against Aids - No Time to 'Rest on Our Laurels'

Saturday marks World Aids Day. Stephen Lewis, chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which helps fight HIV/Aids, says the human face of the disease needs to be restored and that it… Read more »

South Africa: Mother and Baby Put to the Test

In July, AllAfrica.com reported on a clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, that has defied the country's distressing trend over the past decade of maternal mortality rates rising… Read more »

South Africa: When Sex Is Work

Linda is a small, soft-spoken woman. She takes out her passport and in a matter-of-fact voice explains, "This thing reminds me of my journey, from the time my husband died." Read more »

Zambia: 'Enough Is Enough' Says Chief Who Fights HIV/Aids

The Bible, science and an 18-year-old boy were the elements that sparked an initiative to curb HIV in a remote area of Zambia along the border with the Democratic Republic of… Read more »

South Africa: HIV+ Mothers and Their Babies Thrive on Treatment

At 9 a.m. each morning and 9 p.m. each evening, in her shack on the outskirts of Cape Town, Nomsa* diligently takes the antiretroviral medication that makes her … Read more »

Africa: Trade Talks Threaten Access to Aids Drugs

Humanitarian aid has come a long way in the last 40 years, says the international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Dr. Unni Karunakara, but he warns that… Read more »