The focus of this year'€™s World AIDS Day is on leadership, with the slogans '€œTake the lead. Stop AIDS. Keep the promise'€. And a key emphasis is on how individuals can lead the response against AIDS.

Clinic fails to test her for TB, Brooklyn refuses to admit her and doctor advises an abortion but Busi Beko and her daughter survive MDR TB.

Differences between government and AIDS activists are slowing down efforts to reach agreement on a comprehensive plan for HIV and AIDS in prisons.

A new study looking at violence and sexual aggression in a Gauteng youth male correctional facility shows that many prison rapes go unreported. This makes HIV infection among rape survivors a real threat.

The Health Department has recalled millions of male condoms it supplies annually after further testing revealed even more of the barriers were of inferior quality.

After what he calls '€œmany years of government stalling'€, this week the Labour Court finally heard the case of a former Mpumalanga doctor. Dr Malcolm Naude is challenging the Mpumalanga Department of Health for dismissing him, he alleges, on the grounds that he provided antiretroviral treatment to rape survivors.

After seven years of '€œdown time'€ South Africa is back in the business of vaccine production with the formulating and filling of the hepatitis B vaccine at the Biovac Institute, a public-private partnership.