New TB trial aims to slash treatment time for MDR
A new drug trial aimed at finding faster, more effective treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis  was launched this week in Georgia.
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Rural students lead initiative to clean the environment
LIMPOPO - After realising that local rivers in the Vhembe district have been polluted by uninformed villagers who don’t understand the importance of the clean environment to their health, young students have made it their priority to clean and educate people about health benefits of clean environment.
‘Don’t humiliate me’ says brave teen
NORTHERN CAPE – Fourteen year old Dineo (*not her real name), born with HIV and a member of the Future Leaders movement, says she hates teachers using her as the example when discussing HIV positive people at school.
Rural young men use muti to treat STIs
EASTERN CAPE - Most young men in Flagstaff at Ingquza Hill believe that traditional medicine as is the best treatment for sexually transmitted infections.
Why we need tougher anti-tobacco laws
Young South Africans continue to light up but proposed legislation aims to increase the number of people who turn their backs on tobacco products writes SAVERA KALIDEEN.
SA negotiates cheaper TB drug for entire world
The entire world will benefit from a price cut of a TB wonder drug, following successful negotiations between South Africa and pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson.
Prince Harry and Elton John target men
AMSTERDAM - Prince Harry and Elton John on Tuesday launched a $1,2-billion new initiative called MenStar, aimed at reducing HIV in men at the International AIDS Conference.
Charlize says HIV driven by exclusion of groups
AMSTERDAM: The ongoing spread of HIV is directly linked to the inferior status of girls and women globally, Academy Award winning actress Charlize Theron told the International AIDS Conference today (24 July).
Delegates walk out of AIDS conference opening
Hundreds of delegates walked out of the opening of the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam last night in protest when UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe took the stage.
AIDS 2018: Focus on funds, rights and sex workers
The criminalisation of sex workers, injecting drug users and gay men in many countries battling to overcome HIV are key focuses of the International AIDS conference, which opens in Amsterdam tonight (23 July).
UNAIDS head accused of plotting to dismantle agency
The international AIDS conference opens in Amsterdam tonight (23 July) amid a funding crisis for the epidemic, and a rumour that the Joint United Nations Agency on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) is on the brink of being closed.
Helping ‘PrEP Shop Boys’ to get drugs
On the eve of the international AIDS conference in Amsterdam, a South African doctor and a Dutch AIDS activist explain how they smuggled HIV medicine from South Africa to Amsterdam in a nifty inversion of the usual foreign aid story.
Patients share one toilet at Sibasa
LIMPOPO - The Vhembe District Office of the Department of Health has undertaken to repair damaged toilets at Sibasa Clinic in Makwarela outside Thohoyandou following several complaints made by patients.
South Africa slashes HIV infection rate by 44%
Over the past five years, SA has cut its rate of new HIV infections by 44%, but young people are still at risk, according to theSouth African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communication Survey of 2017.
Limpopo Health lambasted over insensitive tweet
The Limpopo Department of Health (DoH) has apologised for a tweet from its official Twitter account claiming that anyone who dies of HIV today does so by choice.