Government affidavits filed in response to a court challenge by the Treatment Action Campaign say the slow introduction of nevirapine through 18 pilot sites is rational and responsible.

A six-month-old baby who contracted HIV from her mother is suing Mpumalanga'€™s MEC for Health, Sibongile Manana, for R700 000.

Controversy over whether mine bosses will give their workers anti-retroviral drugs has promoted the National Union of Mineworkers to call for an HIV/AIDS summit

In what promises to be a bruising court battle, the Health Minister and nine health MECs indicated yesterday, (Wednesday 12th) that they would contest the Treatment Action Campaign's demand for the anti-AIDS drug Nevirapine to be freely available to pregnant HIV positive women.

A step-by-step explanation of how the government'€™s programme to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV works, from ante-natal HIV testing to birth and beyond.

The World Conference Against Racism has heard how stigma and intolerance promote discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS which in turn impedes their access to health care and medication.

Human genetic engineering has the potential to divide humanity into "super-humans" and slaves, and this "gene-ism" could "eclipse racism as the most destructive force on the planet", according to Boston University's Professor of Health Law, George Annas.

The Gauteng government is actively expanding its campaign to prevent HIV positive pregnant women from passing the virus on to their babies, yet many mothers in the province are still reluctant to know their HIV status.

Five AIDS orphans from Ingwavuma in northern KwaZulu-Natal are to be part of a national meeting in Cape Town aimed at giving children affected by HIV/AIDS the opportunity to explain how they would like to be helped.