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Pressure for private medical schools

The private sector is putting pressure on government to allow it to operate private medical schools.

‘A pivotal moment in HIV prevention’

The recent announcement about the failure of the leading AIDS vaccine candidate developed by Merck & Co. is another in a series of disappointing setbacks in HIV prevention. How we as a global community choose to respond to this news, however, is the real test.

Will an HIV vaccine be found?

An HIV vaccine is possible, but it will take some time before it’€™s discovered, says the head of the HIV/AIDS Research Unit at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Prof. Lynn Morris.

Spat mars HIV efforts in Mtubatuba

A new organisation supported by US celebrities has caused controversy in northern KwaZulu-Natal, prompting the question: is there enough co-ordination of donor funding of HIV/AIDS?

Eastern Cape rural hospital shows the way on AIDS

Good news is hard to come by in rural Eastern Cape, but Madwaleni Hospital’€™s HIV programme is inspiring.

Behaviour change sure way to guard against HIV

The focus of this year’€™s World AIDS Day is on leadership, with the slogans ‘€œTake the lead. Stop AIDS. Keep the promise’€. And a key emphasis is on how individuals can lead the response against AIDS.

Mission impossible?

For weeks, only three people turned up for support group meetings in Nkanya but Kopana and her colleagues didn’€™t give up.

Many rivers to cross

Without a lift to the hospital, Faniswa Methi probably wouldn’€™t have made it.

‘€œA vaccine isn’€™t around the corner’€ Living with AIDS # 332

When scientists first started developing vaccines against HIV, they believed that it would take them 10 years to find one. Now, more than two decades later, they say they don’€™t know how long it will take.

Don’t call us guinea pigs, say microbicide trialists

In a few week’s time, results of a major Phase 3 microbicide trial will be released and the women who took part can’t wait for the results

Pharma companies ‘€˜deny medicine to millions’€™ ‘€“ Oxfam

Big pharmaceutical companies need to change the way they work to reach 85% of the world’€™s consumers who don’€™t have proper access to medicine.

Pension day becomes VCT day

Madwaleni Hospital, in rural Mbashe just outside Mtata, in the Eastern Cape has come up with a new strategy to get more people to come for HIV testing. It takes testing services to the people.

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