Not only has South Africa adopted the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets, but we have gone one better than anyone else in the world and adopted 90-90-90 targets for TB as well. It is thanks to us that the Global TB Plan has 90-90-90 targets writes Yogan Pillay, Deputy Director General of the National Department of Health.
Activist organisation the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) boycotted the official World AIDS Day event hosted by the National Department of Health in Daveyton, east of Johannesburg.
Today marks the second anniversary of this young woman's positive HIV test - a two-year journey of highs and lows.
The need to do constant rigorous exercise is one reason the South African Defence Force does not employ people living with HIV, dashing the hopes of this Free State man.
Elderly people are also vulnerable to HIV and this World AIDS Day the Department of Health is urging young and old to get tested.
Accepting a positive HIV status can be difficult: One Free State woman shares her journey.
The only HIV vaccine that has shown some effect against HIV is now being tested in South Africa.
HIV is the biggest killer of South Africans, but deaths from the virus have almost halved in six years thanks to the country’s antiretroviral treatment programme
Is being hospitalised enough motivation to implement tough lifestyle changes - starting with going cold turkey on sugary drinks? We bring you the story of one man who is on the brink of this decision, while his state of health hangs in the balance.
With a new online tool, doctors, public healthcare workers can track who is, and isn’t, doing well on HIV treatment, in real time.
On the eve of international AIDS Day, Dr Nono Simelela, Special Advisor to the Deputy President of South Africa, speaks about working under Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
As Childhood Obesity rates in South Africa continue to soar, experts say the unhealthy food on offer in school tuck shops is partly to blame.
Taxi drivers spend long hours on the road which often leaves them with very little time to consider a healthy diet, so they turn to sugary drinks for energy and sustenance.
Preventing antibiotic resistance puzzles many at a time where momentum is growing to address this growing public health threat.
Manie Pretorius used to be a sports enthusiast who weighed just 70 kilograms. Just a few years and a knee injury later, Pretorius weighed almost 200 kilograms. He had become obese and his state of health was on the decline.
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