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.
People living with HIV/AIDS often endure lack of support from friends and family and suffer low self-esteem, which may result in depression. This can complicate one's journey to a healthy life.
Decriminalising sex work would go a long way towards removing the hurdles sex workers face when trying to get health services, especially for HIV.
Bongani and Violet are both HIV-positive and they are madly in love with each other. What are the chances of a couple such as this to transmit HIV to each other?
OPINION: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has been the international financial armada in the battle against the three diseases. The collapse of the next round of Global Fund grants, known as Round 11, is the most serious, catastrophic setback in the Fund's decade of existence. By Stephen Lewis.
Moriscia Cloete (37) bucks the trend. Many sex workers share stories of broken, unhappy, abusive homes and childhoods, but the tall woman with the easy smile recalls growing up 'with a good family' and receiving a solid education.
EDITORIAL: Two years ago in Cape Town, Dr Reuben Granich of the World Health Organisation presented a scenario at a high-level AIDS science meeting. It was viewed as controversial at the time, but for the first time we could truly dream of ending the devastation of HIV.
Are sexually active South Africans heeding the call to use condoms correctly and consistently to protect themselves from HIV and other dangers?
'I am a woman trapped in a man's body. People ask me whether I am a woman and I answer, no. I have no feelings to women, I prefer relationships with men.'
South Africa continues to have high HIV infection rates among the 15 to 24 year old pregnant women and increasingly so among the 10 to 14 year olds, the latest Government antenatal survey has revealed.
Government's new five-year plan to address HIV is based on a few big, proven interventions aimed at maximum impact rather than a shopping list of small ideas.
The National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2012 - 2016, to be launched in Port Elizabeth today (1 Dec), will cost in the region of R131-billion.
A beggar on the streets of Johannesburg has something to offer to everyone. He is offering advice that people should beware of HIV.
CAPE TOWN - Heroin addict, cocaine addict, crystal methaphetamine (Tik) addict, drug dealer, teenage prostitute, porn actor, HIV-positive by 15, TV star, you name it, Zack Smit has pretty much been there, done that.
OPINION: December 1, 2011 is an enormously significant date for all South Africans. On that day, World AIDS Day, the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) will launch the new and finalized 2012-2016 National Strategic Plan for HIV, STIs and TB, which has been developed over the last year.
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.
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