Analysis of five years of antiretroviral treatment in the state sector has found that the number of South African patients who were lost to follow-up or could not be traced has rapidly increased from 1% in 2002 to 24% in 2007.
A South African study has found that antiretroviral therapy which includes a cheaper nevirapine-based regimen was as beneficial to the long-term health outcomes of HIV-positive infants' as the more expensive Protease Inhibitor (PI)-based regimens currently prescribed.
Almost a million South Africans are already on lifelong antiretroviral treatment and this number is supposed to triple in the next decade if government keeps to its implementation plan.
In his column published in the Sowetan on 27 July 2010 ('Research on HIV prevention gel put black lives at risk'), Andile Mngxitama viciously attacks South African researchers who recently announced a huge breakthrough in the development of a microbicide, a gel that they hope women will be able to use to reduce their risk of being infected with HIV from sex.
In one of the biggest advances in HIV prevention in decades, a vaginal gel containing an antiretroviral drug has been proven to protect almost four out of 10 women from HIV.
In Vulindlela, the winter grass is yellow and an icy wind blows off the white-coated Drakensberg. But in the small collection of park homes that make up the local clinic and research site, there is warmth in people's faces and voices.
A New England Journal of Medicine study has revealed that early initiation of antiretroviral treatment could reduce death rates and the Tuberculosis incidence.
KwaZulu-Natal is committed to a massive male circumcision drive using all available medical methods including the controversial Tara Klamp, according to Health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo.
AVAC Report warns promising developments in biomedical HIV prevention could be undermined by current conditions of the global AIDS response.
HIV doctors and activists have slammed a male circumcision clamp that is being aggressively marketed in South Africa and the rest of the continent with a small study showing that it is much more painful that the surgical route and has more adverse events.
SECTION27 has called for transparency and fairness in this year's Antiretroviral (ARV) tendering process as invitations for bidders are soon to be announced.
The Department of Health has stated that Ubhejane is not registered as a medicine. The MCC has not yet publicly responded to the article.
Dr Mitch Besser, founder and medical director of the Cape Town based programme, mothers2mothers, (m2m) has received the 2010 Award for Best Practices
in Global Health for initiatives to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV and provide care to women living with HIV.
HIV activists have accused the United States and European governments of betraying their commitments to assist poorer nations fund treatment for those needing HIV treatment.
Researchers have started testing the safety a vaginal ring containing an antiretroviral drug in South Africa in the hope that it has the potential to prevent HIV infection in women.
Be in the know with our free weekly newsletter. We deliver a round-up of our top stories and insightful reads from across the web.