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Contrary to popular belief, it is not entirely difficult to get men to test for HIV. This is according to New Start, a non-profit public health programme offering low-cost Voluntary Counselling and Testing services.
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After seven years of ‘down time’ South Africa is back in the business of vaccine production with the formulating and filling of the hepatitis B vaccine at the Biovac Institute, a public-private partnership.
The cost of wars in Africa over the last 15 years could solve the HIV/AIDS crisis, prevent TB and malaria, or provide clean water, sanitation and education for the continent, an Oxfam report has found.
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The search for an HIV vaccine has been given a significant boost with the appointment of Dr Alan Bernstein to head the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise (GHVE).
South Africa has a serious problem with mental disorders linked to substance abuse, according to the first stress and health study released yesterday (Wednesday).
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The launch of an ARV drug factory in Uganda and Malawi’s attempts to double the number of people on ARVs by 2010 are some of the highlights in this issue of the Centers for Disease Control HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has dangled a U$100-million carrot in front of scientists, especially those in Africa and Asia, who may have ‘creative, unorthodox ideas’ that could lead to breakthroughs against some of the greatest health challenges facing poor countries.
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The halting of the HVTN 503 vaccine trial, dubbed ‘Phambili’, has left some doubtful that an effective vaccine to prevent HIV infection will ever be found.
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The Treatment Action Campaign has sent a letter to President Thabo Mbeki formally requesting that he appoint a judicial commission of inquiry into the presidency and health ministry’s involvement in the promotion and testing of Virodene. Read the full letter here as well as a synopsis of the Virodene affair.
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The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention News Update focuses on the Caribbean’s slow response to the AIDS epidemic, Australia’s Hepatitis C epidemic which is fuelled by injecting drug use and London’s efforts to get condoms to Olympic athletes come 2012.
Treatment Action Campaign member Emma Baleka has revealed in an affidavit how she was told by an associate of controversial lawyer Christine Qunta that the Comforter’s Healing Gift products would cure AIDS.
In a first for South Africa, a national PMTCT (Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission) hotline, manned by HIV positive women who are part of the mothers2mothers (m2m) organization, has been launched.