World-first trial for KwaZulu-Natal of vaginal gel that may protect women against HIV.

Rural doctors are bracing themselves for a crisis in hospitals next year as the number of community service doctors is set to drop dramatically to around one-fifth of the usual intake.

Government'€™s long-awaited multi-million rand HIV/AIDS communication tender has finally been awarded to a single consortium headed by Hunt Lascaris.

Many HIV positive residents in the Eastern Cape town of Graaff-Reinet are dying as the province'€™s HIV clinic continues to delay dispensing antiretrovirals (ARVs).

Late last November, the first subsidised, low-cost HIV and AIDS care clinic, opened in Johannesburg. Five months later, clinic management is concerned that demand for the service hasn'€™t quite reached expectations.

Powerful research on the benefits of breastfeeding changes government policy.

For years, there has been a battle over the best way to protect babies born to HIV positive mothers living in poor areas from getting the virus '€“ which has essentially boiled down to a battle between those who advocate breast feeding and those who advocate bottle-feeding with milk formula.

Male circumcision became officially endorsed as an HIV preventive measure today (wed 28th march) by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNAIDS.

Only 32 of the 200 patients diagnosed with extremely drug resistant (XDR) TB at the Church of Scotland Hospital in Tugela Ferry are still alive.

South Africa is one of the top 10 countries in terms of its TB burden, according to the World Health Organisation. The country also fares poorly when considering its cure rate.

There is no evidence that shows South African teenage girls are deliberately having children in order to access the Child Support Grant (CSG), according to a report by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).