Business should view HIV/AIDS as a tax which could add 7-8% to the cost of doing business, and work to minimise exposure to this "tax". This is according to Professor Alan Whiteside, director of the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division of the University of Natal.
South Africans who are as at home surfing the Internet as they are at catching waves are in double danger of damaging their eyes.
A two-year pilot project aimed at encouraging hospital and clinic patients to go for HIV tests has managed to almost triple the demand for tests at the four test sites.
Female condoms can be re-used up to seven times and still meet international safety standards, according to a recent study.
Pupil enrolment in Grade One in KwaZulu-Natal has plunged by 20% over the past four years - and experts believe a key cause is the direct and indirect effect of HIV/AIDS on already poor households
Government cannot afford to treat all terminal AIDS patients in state hospitals. But unless the state invests significant funds in home-based care, it will simply be the cruellest form of privatisation. Kerry Cullinan reports.
Scientists are excited by the reaction of monkeys injected with an AIDS vaccine similar to that which is due to be tested in South Africa within months.
One in four South African children are stunted by malnutrition. Children's organisations are calling for a basic income grant to be given to all children under the age of 18.
Many concerned South Africans, including radio DJs, have volunteered to be injected with the country'€™s first HIV/AIDS prototype vaccine, according to HIV/AIDS expert Professor Salim Abdool Karim.
The pressure of responsibilty for holding down the top AIDS job in the country weighs heavily on the slight shoulders of Dr Nono Simelela, head of the national HIV/AIDS Directorate. However, there is no doubting her her commitment to facing up to the challenges that confront her.
Clinics in Umlazi, Durban have launched a new "Men and Maternity"programme offering couple counselling classes to men and women expecting babies. The programme aims to encourage men to take more responsibility for their children, improve maternal health and offer better services at antenatal clinics.
It is one month since the Gauteng province started its mother to child HIV prevention programme. Since May 16, pregnant women on the East Rand of Gauteng have responded enthusiastically to the provincial government's offer of free nevirapine to prevent HIV positive women from transmitting the virus to their babies.
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