Delegates walk out of AIDS conference opening
Hundreds of delegates walked out of the opening of the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam last night in protest when UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe took the stage.
Kerry Cullinan
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AIDS 2018: Focus on funds, rights and sex workers
The criminalisation of sex workers, injecting drug users and gay men in many countries battling to overcome HIV are key focuses of the International AIDS conference, which opens in Amsterdam tonight (23 July).
UNAIDS head accused of plotting to dismantle agency
The international AIDS conference opens in Amsterdam tonight (23 July) amid a funding crisis for the epidemic, and a rumour that the Joint United Nations Agency on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) is on the brink of being closed.
Helping ‘PrEP Shop Boys’ to get drugs
On the eve of the international AIDS conference in Amsterdam, a South African doctor and a Dutch AIDS activist explain how they smuggled HIV medicine from South Africa to Amsterdam in a nifty inversion of the usual foreign aid story.
Sub-Saharan Africa makes most progress against HIV – UNAIDS
Sub-Saharan Africa has made the most progress against HIV, cutting the rate of new infections by 30% in the past seven years in contrast to the global average of 18%.
We launch Survivor’s Support Service to help rape survivors
Dial *134*334# to access a free and anonymous list of services in five languages for survivors of sexual violence, or visit our map to view and rate facilities across the country.
NHI: It’s not just about the money
While the public health system is desperately under-funded, money alone will not fix it. Yet this is the underlying assumption of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill, which serves to force the public and private health systems into a hasty marriage.
NHI: Hard to outlaw private healthcare
Despite government’s intention to introduce a single health system with compulsory contributions from all working South Africans, it may be impossible to outlaw private healthcare.
HPCSA drives plastic surgeon out of South Africa
Plastic surgeon Dr Michael Rebeiro has finally returned to Kenya after a protracted struggle with the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA).
Nigeria strengthens its ability to fight outbreaks
Monkey Pox, Yellow Fever, Meningitis, Lassa Fever – Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu has been head of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for less than two years but has already had to deal with outbreaks of all these diseases.
Half the world is unprepared for epidemics
Ebola shocked and terrified the world - but four years later, over half the world is not ready to combat epidemics. A new website maps out who is ready and who isn't.
Massive changes proposed to private medical schemes
Two new Bills signal government’s intention to restrict private medical aids and exercise more central control over public health as it moves to establish a single health system by 2026.