JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) - More South Africans could access HIV treatment earlier if government approves recommendations by the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC), a move that could finally align national policy with international best practice.
Read More » Waiting to hear if treatment will start earlier
JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) - A Johannesburg high school recently did something that for years has only been whispered behind closed doors in education circles ' voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) for HIV was offered to students.
Read More » ABCs and HIV tests
KAMPALA: (PlusNews) - The government is investigating whether a nationwide shortage of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs led to the reported deaths of HIV-positive people in northern Uganda this month.
Read More » Government inquiry launched as ARV shortages blamed for deaths
JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) - While a number of countries in southern Africa have made great strides in improving access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment for HIV-infected adults, progress in rolling out treatment for HIV-positive infants and children has lagged behind. Namibia is a notable exception.
Read More » Saving HIV-positive babies
MAPUTO: (PlusNews) - Less than 7 percent of HIV-positive children in Mozambique are receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, according to a new study.
Read More » Children still miss out on treatment
MAPUTO: (PlusNews) - Thousands of people took to the streets of Maputo, capital of Mozambique, and the country's second city, Beira this week, to protest the government's closure of day care hospitals for HIV-positive patients.
Read More » Closing HIV day care centres brings protesters out
JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) - Nowhere is the goal of universal access to prevention, treatment and care more daunting than in South Africa, where an estimated 5.5 million people are living with HIV - the largest burden in the world.
Read More » No simple formula for universal access
Sicelo Shiceka this week stuck to his controversial statements that 'herbs' have an important role to play in 'bringing down the viral load in HIV/AIDS'.
Read More » Dr Herb takes over where Dr Beetroot left off
EDITORIAL: Finally there is a small light flickering at the end of the dark tunnel. The political will and urgency, so severely lacking for nine long years while Thabo Mbeki and his health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang were in charge, is on the face of it slowly starting to emerge.
Read More » An end to the madness?The world's largest open scientific conference on HIV/AIDS ended in Cape Town this week with a sense of optimism over future possibilities to stem the epidemic, outrage over funding cutbacks and revelations over failure to steadfastly implement tried and tested HIV prevention interventions and speed up universal access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.
Read More » Conference ends in optimism
CAPE TOWN - Healthcare workers in KwaZulu-Natal are almost six times more likely to contract drug resistant tuberculosis than the general population in the province, a poster presentation at 5th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2009) has revealed.
Read More » Health workers at high risk of TB infection
CAPE TOWN - Prevention scientists attending the 5th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2009) have cautioned against not preparing for the success of Microbicides and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) trials.
Read More » Microbicides showing promise for successReturning the focus to an HIV prevention method that has been known to work for over a decade holds the key to not just eliminating paediatric AIDS, but putting South Africa on the road to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, reducing deaths among mothers and children, uplifting health systems and drawing men into HIV services.
Read More » New lease for PMTCT
CAPE TOWN - Scientists have renewed the call for more immediate and urgent effort to be directed towards HIV prevention amid the dominance of treatment interventions and the world-wide search for a quick fix vaccine, which many agree, is years away.
Read More » Prevention needs more attention
AIDS needs to removed from isolation and become an entry point to transforming society, attaining the Millennium Development Goals, uplifting health systems and ultimately making better health and development outcomes a reality.
Read More » Universal access to ARVs is possible
