One third of all HIV infected South Africans are accessing antiretroviral therapy (ART), far exceeding the enrolment targets of the country'€™s National Strategic Plan (NSP) for 2007 to 2011.

Activists have sent another letter to Cepheid, the manufacturer of the revolutionary GeneXpert multi-drug resistant TB diagnostic machine, urging them to bring down the price of their products so that more people can access this lifesaving test.

HIV activists and senior doctors have called for an urgent investigation into the continued rollout of a controversial male circumcision device in KwaZulu-Natal.

Pretoria - The Department of Health has called on parents and caregivers to take their children for their immunisations against pneumococcal diseases during a four-month Catch-Up immunisation campaign.

Antiretroviral medicine can play a huge part in preventing positive people from transmitting the virus '€“ but only if they keep their viral loads undetectable.

For the first time, the global AIDS community is talking about stopping the AIDS within a couple of decades '€“ and it seems possible.

The early treatment of people with HIV massively reduces their infectiousness and gives the world our first real opportunity to halt the HIV epidemic.

In a huge blow to HIV prevention, a major trial of a vaginal gel expected to protect women was stopped on Friday (25 Nov) after it was found to have no effect on preventing HIV. This result was unexpected and contradicted an earlier trial of the same vaginal gel, called a microbicide, containing the antiretroviral tenofovir.

Working up the courage to discuss your sex life with a health worker is challenging at the best of times. For men who have sex with men and transgender women, it'€™s simply too tough to contemplate and many of them simply decline seeking healthcare or delay until it is too late. A clinic in Cape Town is changing that.