African ‘champions’ might help get new AIDS drugs
Aspen, South Africa’s leading generic medicine producer, has initiated talks with high level African leaders to boost the production of cheaper generic antiretroviral medicine on the continent.
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Access to treatment still a crisis
Global AIDS gains are in danger of being rolled back unless donors step up their contributions, getting treatment to 20 million HIV positive people currently excluded.
Not an honour to host AIDS conference – Charlize
It is not an honour to host the 21st international AIDS conference, because we should have eliminated HIV by now, actress Charlize Theron told delegates at the opening of the AIDS conference in Durban last night.
New AIDS taxes possible, as donor funds dry up
An airport tax and a transaction tax of a few cents for every credit card transaction are some of the ways in which African countries can fund their AIDS responses.
Code red: AIDS activists march for treatment for all
The world should not talk about the end of AIDS while 20 million people don't have treatment, said activists who handed a memorandum to the UN's Ban Ki-Moon in Durban on Monday.
Curse of the ‘blessers’
Health minister launches plan to keep girls in school - and out of the clutches of abusive sugar daddies.
Life of challenges for HIV-positive children
Thousands of children born HIV positive before effective treatment for their pregnant moms are now teenagers and young adults, struggling to negotiate life’s challenges.
ARVs for HIV negative sex workers
AIDS 2016
It might sound strange, but ARVs can prevent HIV as well as treat it. A new programme using ARVs as pre-exposure prophylaxis was launched recently. Lindiwe Msibi reports...
Too soon to speak of the end of AIDS
There has been remarkable progress in the AIDS response. We have come a long way since the 13th International AIDS Conference was hosted in Durban in 2000. Professor Chris Beyrer, Professor Linda-Gail Bekker and Professor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi discuss...
Making the dwindling AIDS dollars go further
As HIV donor funding dwindles, the world is looking for ways to make less money go further – and one of the best investments is using ARVs to prevent new infections in people most at risk.
South Africa on the front foot and moving forwards
The June 2000 UNAIDS global report on AIDS painted a sombre picture: already South Africa had the greatest number of people living with HIV than any other country in the world and life expectancy had fallen rapidly to historical levels write Professor Linda-Gail Bekker and Professor Robin Wood.
AIDS2016: The Durban I used to hate
Fifteen years ago, death was everywhere in Durban, the epicentre of AIDS in the world, and the state had been "captured" by AIDS denialists
All eyes are on the World AIDS Conference 2016
As the countdown to the 21st International AIDS Conference to be held in Durban enters the last few days, the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality responded to SANAC Chairperson and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appeal for coordinated activities to mark the event.
Losing a child to HIV
After her first child died of AIDS and she miscarried her second, Melita enrolled in the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programme and saved her third.
Raising an HIV Positive child is not child’s play
Malebo* was sick when she gave birth to her daughter 12 years ago, and soon realised her newborn was too. Medical tests done at the time confirmed that both mother and child were HIV positive. She tells Mpho Lekgetho her story.