A small group of activists picketed outside the Johannesburg offices of the Qatari news network, Al Jazeera, this week to demand the reinstatement of a South African journalist who was dismissed solely because of his HIV-positive status.
By tomorrow, public health facilities in Gauteng will have medicines and there must be a plan to pay out all outstanding debts to suppliers of critical services and commodities that enable proper health care delivery. That's according to national Health Department Director-General, Precious Matsoso.
Human rights and civil society groups will picket the Qatari news network, Al Jazeera, next week to call for the reinstatement of a South African journalist who was thrown out of Qatar after it was found that he has HIV.
People living with HIV have a critical role to play in preventing new HIV infections. A new strategy aims to enlist the help of HIV-infected people in preventing the spread of HIV.
While the developing world is still reeling from the blow of foreign funders' withdrawal from supporting AIDS programmes, South African Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, says he is not alarmed that the donor community is now going back on its promise of support.
Over the last three years HIV prevalence among older women between the ages of 30 ' 34 has been growing, while it remains the same in younger women aged 15 ' 24. This is according to the 21st antenatal survey measuring HIV prevalence among first time pregnant women. The survey included women from as young as 10 year-old adolescents.
When the South African National AIDS Council launches the new National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS and TB later today, it will highlight the prevention of new infections as a key aim. The plan is the start of a long-term vision to be accomplished over 20 years.
An AIDS patient previously on antiretroviral treatment appears to now be free of infection after a stem cell transplant where he received blood cells of a person with genes that are able to resist HIV infection. This so-called 'Berlin patient' has raised the possibility that AIDS can be cured.
Many people with HIV constantly need information to help them cope with their condition. Others isolate themselves from society on hearing they have HIV, due to fear and stigma. Now a new magazine called 'Positive' aims to address the information gap and to make those infected aware that they are not alone in the struggle with HIV.
People living with HIV and AIDS are at more risk of severe complications and even death should they contract malaria.
Six new additional centres offering medical male circumcision services will open in the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Gauteng as from next January until the end of 2012.
Official figures show that the business sector conducted far fewer HIV tests than it aimed to during the national HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign. But business leaders say this is so only as a result of companies under-reporting the results of their individual campaigns.
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