Youth demand condoms and sanitary pads
Young people hijacked Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s address to the AIDS2016 plenary this morning, demanding that he accept a declaration advocating for condoms and sanitary pads in schools.
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African ‘champions’ might help get new AIDS drugs
Aspen, South Africa’s leading generic medicine producer, has initiated talks with high level African leaders to boost the production of cheaper generic antiretroviral medicine on the continent.
Access to treatment still a crisis
Global AIDS gains are in danger of being rolled back unless donors step up their contributions, getting treatment to 20 million HIV positive people currently excluded.
Not an honour to host AIDS conference – Charlize
It is not an honour to host the 21st international AIDS conference, because we should have eliminated HIV by now, actress Charlize Theron told delegates at the opening of the AIDS conference in Durban last night.
New AIDS taxes possible, as donor funds dry up
An airport tax and a transaction tax of a few cents for every credit card transaction are some of the ways in which African countries can fund their AIDS responses.
AIDS2016: The Durban I used to hate
Fifteen years ago, death was everywhere in Durban, the epicentre of AIDS in the world, and the state had been "captured" by AIDS denialists
Mass move of Gauteng’s mentally ill
Deinstitutionalisation. It sounds good: taking mentally ill people out of psychiatric institutions and putting them into community homes or back with their families. But the outcome is seldom positive, as Gauteng patients have discovered.
Quarter of clinics experience medicine stock outs
One in four public health facilities ran out of antiretroviral or TB medicine last year, with Mpumalanga, Gauteng and Free State being worst affected.
SSP Third Annual Stock out Survey
The Stop Stock out Project’s Third annual survey conducted a telephonic survey of 2 463 facilities between October and December 2015, and reported that a quarter of public health facilities had stock outs of ARVs or TB medicine. …
Rape: Women are suffering in silence
South Africa’s rape rate is so high that it is akin to a country at war. But many women are suffering in silence, without counselling or treatment that can protect them from HIV.
Dire AIDS warning on eve of global meeting
If world leaders fail to commit enough resources to ending AIDS by 2030 at the UN High Level meeting this week, HIV will rebound and destroy the gains made.
17 million on ARVs- UNAIDS
Around 17 million people were taking antiretroviral medicine by the end of 2015, with 3,4 million in South Africa, still has the largest treatment programme in the world.