With just a few months to do the job before the next general election, the new Minister of Health, Barbara Hogan, has her job cut out for her '€“ and she is quick to admit that it'€™s a tough job ahead '€“ one fraught with problems.

A recent debate in the journal Future HIV Therapy argues for and against male circumcision as an intervention against HIV.

Writing in his diary about life with HIV, Pholokgolo Ramothwala reveals his anxiety about going for his next big test '€“ checking the progression of the virus that lives in his body and the strength of his CD 4 cells.

A seven-year court battle against the Mpumalanga Health Department has finally ended in victory for Dr Malcolm Naude.

An ambitious new Global Malaria Action Plan aimed at reducing the number of malaria deaths to near zero by 2015 was revealed in New York yesterday (Thursday) with world leaders committing nearly US$3-billion to ensure it succeeds.

Films showing real-life experiences that put us at risk of HIV infection and how people are dealing with the epidemic have been produced for television. The nine short films were produced by film-makers from nine countries in southern Africa.

The health department has withdrawn two widely-dispensed tuberculosis (TB) drug combination batches after preliminary investigations revealed the drugs became unstable under long-term storage, ultimately placing patients at risk of not receiving their optimal dosage.

A key feature of South Africa'€™s HIV epidemic where 5.7 million people are positive is that among the 15 '€“ 24 year olds infected, women and girls account for more than 90% of new infections. This needs a special focus on this group when designing prevention programmes, says UNAIDS.

Festus Mogae recruits prominent African "champions for an AIDS-free generation" to help improve HIV prevention efforts.

MEXICO CITY -- Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has appealed to all South Africans attending the 17th International AIDS Conference to come home and make HIV prevention work.

After a series of failed AIDS vaccines, there is hope that ARVs taken before potentially risky sex, could protect those who don't have HIV.

The Joint United Nations'€™ Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) annual report shows that the global HIV epidemic is either slightly stabilising or decreasing. The stabilising epidemic has also been noted in South Africa which has the world'€™s largest HIV epidemic with 5.7 million infections.