National and international efforts to prevent escalating HIV infection rates have yielded very little results. This reality has spurred the African Union into declaring 2006 as the Year of Accelerating Access to HIV Prevention in Africa.

Desperate AIDS patients buy expensive concoction, but researchers say there is no proof that it works

Changes in sexual behaviour seem to be behind the dramatic drop in HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe, according to researchers

In the first instalment of a two-part report, we meet Selinah Mashinini, who has experienced both the good and bad side of antiretrovirals. When she first took the medication in 2001, she developed resistance to it and got even sicker. But a new treatment regimen, which she began a year later, has proven successful.

There was little to celebrate in South Africa and more specifically in the Eastern Cape on World Aids Day.

The TAC and the SA Medical Association have joined forces in court charging vitamin seller Matthias Rath and attempting to force the minister to take a stand.

The Rath Foundation, which promotes its vitamins as a cure for AIDS and encourages HIV positive people to abandon their antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, has set its sights on the Eastern Cape.