In its current TV series, 'One Love', the non-profit health communication project, Soul City, is promoting the value of men and women being faithful to their partners and dedicating themselves to building one committed relationship.
The antiretroviral shortages in the Free State which reached crisis proportions last year when the province ran out of the critical medication are continuing, according to the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
KENYA:(PlusNews) - Jane Nyasuguta*, 40, a former teacher living in Nyanza Province, western Kenya, thought she and her husband had a good marriage until she discovered he had a mistress in a neighbouring town. She told IRIN/PlusNews that after his death from an AIDS-related illness, and her discovery that she too was HIV-positive, she was filled with resentment.
More people need health services because of HIV/AIDS yet there are fewer and fewer health workers to help them.
The impact is particularly bad at primary healthcare facilities, the first stop for sick people without medical aid.
'Show me your number,' a new campaign using football players to boost awareness around HIV and AIDS on and off the soccer pitch was launched recently.
Dr Matthias Rath is probably in contempt of court by continuing to sell his vitamins, including VitaCell as a medicine, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has said in a letter to Health Minister Barbara Hogan.
Two families are broken after losing their loved ones who were on Rath's medication. Health-e visits them three years later.
The former minister of health in Cameroon claims he has developed an AIDS 'vaccine' that has 'cured' 23 people of the disease, but when asked to produce those he had cured he could not.
Ceragem is a Korean massage bed registered by the American Food and Drug Administration in the US for the treatment of minor aches and pains in arthritis ' but in South Africa it is being touted as an AIDS cure.
'Bring me people sick with AIDS who can't walk', urges the poster stuck onto Durban bus shelters, with a cellphone number attached.
The number leads to a man who called himself 'Dr Mama Grace' who operates from a small building on Grey Street in downtown Durban.
With just a few months to do the job before the next general election, the new Minister of Health, Barbara Hogan, has her job cut out for her ' and she is quick to admit that it's a tough job ahead ' one fraught with problems.
A Cape Town fertility clinic has opened one of the only dedicated laboratories for HIV positive patients in the world where couples can safely conceive and give birth to an HIV-negative baby.
A recent debate in the journal Future HIV Therapy argues for and against male circumcision as an intervention against HIV.
Writing in his diary about life with HIV, Pholokgolo Ramothwala reveals his anxiety about going for his next big test ' checking the progression of the virus that lives in his body and the strength of his CD 4 cells.
A seven-year court battle against the Mpumalanga Health Department has finally ended in victory for Dr Malcolm Naude.
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