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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?
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Good news is hard to come by in rural Eastern Cape, but Madwaleni Hospital’s HIV programme is inspiring.
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The focus of this year’s World AIDS Day is on leadership, with the slogans ‘Take the lead. Stop AIDS. Keep the promise’. And a key emphasis is on how individuals can lead the response against AIDS.
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For weeks, only three people turned up for support group meetings in Nkanya but Kopana and her colleagues didn’t give up.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
Results from the first ever microbocide trial to go through all phases of research are due to be released early next year. A microbicide is a substance that can be inserted vaginally or anally with the aim of protecting its users from HIV infection.
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As the international community is focusing on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis another rapidly growing epidemic, diabetes, is also demanding attention.
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Improved diagnostics, new medicines for drug resistant TB, the integration of HIV and TB treatment, increased funding and political will are some of the resources needed for a stronger effort against Tuberculosis.