The Commission for Gender Equality in South Africa says that forced or coerced sterilisation for women living with HIV in South Africa's public hospitals is "cruel, torturous or ... Read more »
The government aims at stepping up Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) measures to reach a 4% target in 2021 and has emphasised the need to engage with health ... Read more »
The Global Fund has given U.S.$413 739 805 to fund efforts against against Aids and tuberculosis until 2024. The money would be in addition to the funding that comes from the ... Read more »
South Africa's prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme has achieved remarkable successes in recent years. It has improved the health and life expectancy for pregnant ... Read more »
Facebook has said it removed some ads that contained misleading information about HIV prevention drugs following an outcry from activists, health experts and U.S. lawmakers, the ... Read more »
A mobile application 'PrEP Uganda' can now be downloaded from the Google Play Store for those who might need to get Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), a course of HIV drugs taken by ... Read more »
Rosie Mashale, popularly known as Mama Rosie, the founder of Baphumelele Children's Centre of South Africa has been named Daily Trust 'African of the Year'. Read more »
Kenya has been carrying forward a lot of unspent money when there are some desperate countries in need of the money, Austin Demby, deputy director of the Office of Global Health ... Read more »
Close to 8,000 delegates have gathered for the 20th International Conference on Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa in Kigali, Rwanda. The country's president Paul ... Read more »
Hundreds of thousands of people continue to die from advanced HIV, also known as Aids, because countries are ill-equipped to detect and treat people suffering through advanced ... Read more »
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