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.
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.
Free State health activists will march in Bloemfontein today calling the provincial government reach the National Strategic Plan targets.
'Antiretroviral microbicides for prevention ' such promise needs urgent research. How can I stand idly by and not take up this challenge?' asks Professor Salim 'Slim' Abdool Karim. He is heading a trial that is testing the effectiveness of a tenofovir-based microbicide. Lungi Langa spoke to Karim at the recent Microbicide conference in Pittsburgh.
The idea of using antiretroviral treatment as a potential prevention intervention is being hailed as an exciting idea although implementation could be a hurdle. Data strongly suggests that people on successful antiretrovirals do not transmit the virus sexually or any other way. The Lancet has released information revealing that ART reduces HIV transmission risk by 92% in heterosexual couples.
The Department of Health has apologized for the deaths last week of six babies at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and 10 at Natalspruit Hospital on the East Rand. The Department says it's investigating several factors to determine the cause of deaths.
Pittsburgh ' Anal sex is viewed as something that only takes place among men who have sex with men (MSM) denying the fact that this form of sexual intercourse was a major driver in the HIV epidemic among heterosexual couples, researchers told the Microbicides 2010 conference this week.
Pittsburgh, USA ' Using antiretrovirals in microbicides as an effective HIV prevention method specifically aimed at women is in the spotlight at the Microbicides 2010 conference currently underway in the United States.
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