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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have condemned the vitamin selling Matthias Rath Foundation.
KZN MEC Peggy Nkonyeni has increased the budget of the province’s emergency services by almost 30%, but says it is still not enough to meet demand.
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South Africa in particular needs to show its commitment to treating HIV positive people with anti-retrovirials if the World Health Organisation target of treating three million people by the end of the year is to be met.
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Health leaders meeting in Addis Ababa have released a “Road Map” to scale up the battle against a spiraling tuberculosis epidemic.
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Very seldom do journalists write about HIV in relation to their own lives as people at risk or infected and affected by the virus. Hayden Horner, a journalist with a United Nations agency breaks away from the norm.
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Exclusive breastfeeding substantially reduces the transmission of HIV from mother to baby as well as infant death, compared with partial breastfeeding, a study in Zimbabwe has confirmed.
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Is living with HIV something to celebrate to the extent of throwing a colourful party for more than 200 guests? Peter Busse, a Johannesburg-based AIDS educator recently marked 20 years of living with the virus.
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Prisoners executed by lethal injection in the US may have experienced ‘excruciating pain’ while dying because they were not properly sedated, according to research published in this week’s issue of The Lancet.
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A review of Uganda’s HIVNET 012 drug study has found Nevirapine to be effective and safe in preventing HIV transmission from mother to unborn child.
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At the first public forum to discuss the antiretroviral rollout, healthworkers are blunt about their problems.
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In his memoir Justice Edwin Cameron reveals how social and political denial, fear of illness and death, government’s reluctance to provide ARV therapy as well as the double stigma of being homosexual and infected, impacted on his life.
Breastfeeding of babies by a non-biological caregiver with HIV is one of the most important factors associated with HIV infection in children. A study released in Cape Town this week also found that there is a potential for health-care acquired transmission of HIV in the maternity, paediatric and dental facilities in the Free State health institutions.