Social conditions such as poverty and gender inequalities play a major role in driving the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Often, it is women who are at the mercy of such conditions. A unique pilot project in the remote villages of Limpopo and Mpumalanga is using micro-finance to intervene.
South Africa will be in the spotlight at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto when the merits of male circumcision come up for discussion.
In the face of HIV and AIDS, community-based caregivers are an invaluable asset. These men and women ' who often go without pay ' counsel, feed, clothe, wash and give hope to those with little, or no hope, at all. We meet one such dedicated soul.
If on-going research does show that male circumcision can protect against HIV, it's inevitable that a campaign for access to circumcision will follow. But while every effort aimed at HIV prevention is welcome, common sense must prevail.
The Treatment Action Campaign is set to take up yet another volley in an attempt to stop the controversial vitamin seller Dr Matthias Rath. The Rath Foundation has been accused of promoting its vitamins as a cure for AIDS and encouraging HIV positive people to abandon their antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. TAC is considering lodging legal papers in the High Court to stop Dr Rath's campaign in the Eastern Cape. This report is in IsiXhosa.
Education departments worldwide are ill-prepared to deal with teachers and children who are infected with HIV, according to UNAIDS report
Two decades of HIV and AIDS have come and gone. Yet, despite the availability of life-prolonging antiretroviral medication and more openness about AIDS, many HIV-positive people continue to die pitiful, secret-filled and lonely deaths. Why?
Nine years ago, Dr Loyiso Mpuntsha was rejected as a blood donor. Today she is the new Chief Executive Officer of the South African National Blood Service, the same organisation that did not want her blood ' solely because she is black.
HIV-positive pregnant women are more likely to experience pregnancy-related complications than HIV-negative pregnant women. This is according to a study by Wits University's Department of Nursing Education.
Plenty of success stories were exchanged this week as beneficiaries from the world's biggest HIV/AIDS donor programme, the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar), met in Durban.
A 44 - year old HIV positive mother - Emmelinah Sindane - is determined to get to the finishing line of today's Comrades Marathon [June 16] despite the odds. Sindane will be partaking in the marathon only for the second time. She spoke to Health-e about her personal triumph over her HIV status.
[This report is in IsiXhosa.]
HIV/AIDS programmes in sub-Saharan Africa cannot be implemented by doctors and nurses alone if they are to expand to meet the treatment needs of citizens, according to Dr Mark Dybul, acting US Global AIDS Co-ordinator.
A study conducted in Orange Farm, a settlement south of Johannesburg, shows that circumcised men are at a lower risk of contracting HIV. But, some researchers warn against the wholesale promotion of circumcision as a barrier against HIV infection.
Reduce malaria, worms and bilharzia, make border posts more efficient ' and HIV rates will drop, argues a US expert.
African AIDS activists at the UN High-Level Meeting on HIV and AIDS in New York are furious over what they see as the overturning of agreed commitments on performance targets and the protection of vulnerable groups by a handful of African governments.
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