The impending catastrophe
Overall, at least 3.5 million South Africans are already infected with HIV, a disease for which there is no cure. The best case scenario predicts six million South Africans will be HIV positive in 10 years'€™ time.
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Mbeki sites poverty and not AIDS as biggest killer
Extreme poverty and not HIV/AIDS is the world's biggest killer and the greatest cause of ill-health and suffering, President Thabo Mbeki told some 12 000 delegates at the opening of the13th world AIDS conference in Durban.
Fight AIDS like we fought for the World Cup – Winnie
If South Africa had given HIV/AIDS the same attention as we did to hosting the Soccer World Cup, we could have saved millions of lives, ANC Women's League president Winnie Madikizela Mandela told some 3 000 people in Durban yesterday at an international march to demand cheaper HIV/AIDS drugs.
Making clinics youth-friendly
When Nokubonga Ntzimela lost her patient'€™s card for the local clinic, she was scared to go back, fearing that the nursing sisters would shout at her.Ntzimela'€™s experience is perhaps unusual from other 16-year-olds in that she visited the clinic at least once. Surveys show that most adolescents avoid public clinics because they are concerned about being chastised, embarrassed or rudely treated by clinic staff.
Manguzi family affected by AIDS
Indigo storm clouds are mounting on the horizon as we go into the Mthembu family home in Manguzi. We are just a few kilometers from the Mozambique border and the sandy soil suggests we'€™re also not too far from the coast.
Hlabisa: AIDS workers shift towards home-based care
With the prospect of tens of thousands of HIV positive people in its district needing medical help in the next few years, the tiny, 300-bed Hlabisa Hospital has turned its attention to encouraging people to care for terminally ill relatives at home.
Nkosi not yet ready to go to heaven
The red ribbon pinned to his windbreaker is the first thing you notice. Then the wide smile, the huge, deep-sunken eyes and his incredibly frail body. Nkosi Johnson (11), touted for many years by the media as one of the longest HIV survivor in the country, is ill.
The man behind South Africa’s AIDS vaccine
It's like putting a man on the moon. They believed and knew they could do it. We believe and there is a firm scientific conviction that a vaccine against AIDS will be developed." Dr Walter Prozesky, the driving force behind South Africa's effort to find an AIDS vaccine, speaks this with "firm conviction".
AIDS’ first couple – a formidable team
If there were such a title, thirty-something Salim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim would be South Africa'€™s "first couple" of HIV/AIDS research.
Speaking out to protect science
Professor Hoosen "Jerry" Coovadia used to be a draw-card speaker at anti-apartheid rallies. Yet today he finds himself at odds with the very democratic government he fought so hard to install over its HIV/AIDS policy.
Speaking out to protect science
Professor Hoosen "Jerry" Coovadia used to be a draw-card speaker at anti-apartheid rallies. Yet today he finds himself at odds with the very democratic government he fought so hard to install over its HIV/AIDS policy.
Journalists, ethics and HIV/AIDS
It is death rather than renaissance that draws the foreign press to Africa. But where are the ethics that protect HIV/AIDS sufferers from unscrupulous journalists?
AIDS patients die while government fails to support established projects
Despite the fact that state hospitals cannot afford to care for those dying of AIDS, government'€™s failure to work with non-governmental organisations is undermining volunteer home-care projects in KwaZulu-Natal. Over the past six months, Sinosizo, a home-based care organisation started by the Catholic Church, has closed its operations in the entire Western Region '€“ including Hammarsdale, Shongweni, Inchanga and the inner west.
Committed to the cause of fighting HIV/AIDS
Bongani Khumalo responds well to causes. From the South African Council of Churches, the Red Cross, the South African National Men's Forum which he founded, "to inculcate responsible behaviour among men", to Deputy Chief Executive at Eskom where he was responsible for restructuring and transformation, Bongani Khumalo is a committed to causes.
AIDS panel ‘a waste of money’
President Thabo Mbeki'€™s controversial AIDS review panel meets tomorrow (Mon 3 July) for a second and final time, but insiders describe the body as having been a waste of time and money.Government has said that the panel -- which brought together 33 international experts including "dissidents" who do not believe that HIV causes AIDS '€“ will cost it R2-million of taxpayers'€™ money.