HIV rate stable in teens but increasing among older women
Pregnant women aged between 25 and 29, living in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Gauteng are worst affected by HIV.
Kerry Cullinan
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Education sector ill-prepared for teachers and students with HIV
Education departments worldwide are ill-prepared to deal with teachers and children who are infected with HIV, according to UNAIDS report
Vaccine for vicious rotavirus
South African kids will soon be able to get vaccinated against one of the most common causes of severe diarrhoea
AIDS successes bring new challenges
Plenty of success stories were exchanged this week as beneficiaries from the world's biggest HIV/AIDS donor programme, the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar), met in Durban.
AIDS programmes need to look beyond nurses and doctors
HIV/AIDS programmes in sub-Saharan Africa cannot be implemented by doctors and nurses alone if they are to expand to meet the treatment needs of citizens, according to Dr Mark Dybul, acting US Global AIDS Co-ordinator.
SA minister wants more control over US funds
DURBAN ' The South African government would like more control over more than $450-million donated to the country by the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar), according to health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala Msimang.
Radical approach to AIDS prevention
Reduce malaria, worms and bilharzia, make border posts more efficient ' and HIV rates will drop, argues a US expert.
AIDS lesson from Orange Farm, but prevention is being neglected
Dirt-poor Orange Farm residents may be, but a study conducted in the settlement south of Johannesburg has brought hope to the world ' and features in the UNAIDS report on AIDS.
AIDS in SA shows no signs of decline
The AIDS epidemic in southern Africa shows 'no evidence of a decline', according to the annual UNAIDS Global Report for 2005 released yesterday (30 May).
‘Exceptional leadership’ is needed
Sketching a crisis epidemic that is already infecting 65 million people, the UN body says 'exceptional leadership' is needed to move beyond crisis management to develop long-term responses.
Former MP resigned over AIDS denialism
Activist Pregs Govender admitted this week that AIDS denialism within government had been one of two factors that pushed her to resign as an ANC Member of Parliament in 2002.
Recruiting retired nurses is “elderly abuse”
The KwaZulu-Natal health department's recent appeal for retired nurses to return to work to help alleviate staff shortages was condemned as unsustainable and 'an abuse of the elderly' by delegates at a recent provincial health forum.