OPINION PIECE:It is time government showed the same vigor in tackling the snake oil salesman as they have in tackling conventional medicine and science.

Diabetes is increasing rapidly worldwide, yet many people are unaware of its symptoms.
So says renowned paediatric diabetes expert Professor Tadej Battelino, in South Africa to attend an international diabetes conference.

All around the world, people with HIV are being charged for endangering the lives of others. But this doesn't stop the spread of HIV because most of those infected don't know they have the virus, argues Judge Edwin Cameron.

Circumcised men are much less likely to get HIV, but if the procedure is promoted as a way of preventing HIV men might think they are immune to the virus.

While there is good clinical evidence for starting patients on antiretroviral therapy when their CD4 count is 350 not 200, opening access in countries with weak health systems might do more harm than good, warns AIDS activist.

MEXICO CITY '€“ If HIV is to be beaten, poor households in high prevalence African countries should be given a basic income grant.

People on ARV treatment who have undetectable viral loads are unlikely to transmit HIV, so treatment is also a prevention tool say scientists.

Given a hero's welcome at the international AIDS conference, Bill Clinton revealed that genetic changes in Africans had opened them up to HIV

African leaders need to take joint responsibility for HIV/AIDS, says former president of Botswana

South Africa has the largest HIV epidemic in the world with an estimated 5,7-million people living with HIV in 2007.