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 »
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's announcement that the American government now prioritizes creating an Aids-free generation could be more than just political lip-service - ... Read more »
The Kenyan government is scrambling to remove thousands of batches of counterfeit antiretrovirals (ARVs) from circulation after patients and health workers reported irregularities ... Read more »
A popularly contraceptive could double the risk of contracting HIV among users as well as increase chances of transmitting it to their partners. Read more »
A poor and HIV-positive South African may well hear advice about "living positively" with HIV, but this is guidance that many find impossible to follow. Joining a Savings and ... Read more »
HIV-positive people in South Africa will be able to access antiretroviral sooner after the government raised the CD4 count necessary to access treatment. But some warn the victory ... Read more »
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