Home-based ARV programme would save lives
Allowing home-based community workers to run an antiretroviral therapy service at people's homes would reduce deaths, according to The Lancet
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Disappointment and hope follow Carraguard failure
Organizations working in the field of HIV/AIDS are still hopeful that new HIV prevention methods will be found despite Carraguard's disappointing results.
KZN drops misconduct charges against doctor
The misconduct charge against rural doctor Colin Pfaff for implementing 'dual therapy' at his hospital have been dropped.
Carraguard microbicide fails to stop HIV
Yet another microbicide candidate fails to prevent HIV infection, as the scientific world turns its attention to 'third generation' technology.
KZN MEC in row over doctor insult
MEC slurs rural doctors and describes AZT as "toxic" while on hospital tour.
Govt will continue to adapt WHO guides, says Xundu and minister
South Africa's health department will continue to adapt the World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines on the prevention of mother to children transmission (PMTCT) 'to suit the national situation'.
TB is a ‘human disgrace’
Africa will not achieve the United Nations-set sixth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halting and reversing the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) by 2015.
Looking into the future Living with AIDS # 334
Perhaps the most encouraging news about HIV/AIDS this year is that prevalence rates in South Africa and the world are decreasing. The decline might be small, but it's certainly something to build on going forth into 2008.
Will an HIV vaccine be found?
An HIV vaccine is possible, but it will take some time before it's discovered, says the head of the HIV/AIDS Research Unit at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Prof. Lynn Morris.
The only remaining hope in microbicide research
Results of the Carraguard clinical trial - the first microbicide candidate to complete a Phase 111 trial ' are expected to be released in a few weeks' time.
Behaviour change sure way to guard against HIV
The focus of this year's World AIDS Day is on leadership, with the slogans 'Take the lead. Stop AIDS. Keep the promise'. And a key emphasis is on how individuals can lead the response against AIDS.
Pension day becomes VCT day
Madwaleni Hospital, in rural Mbashe just outside Mtata, in the Eastern Cape has come up with a new strategy to get more people to come for HIV testing. It takes testing services to the people.
MDR TB patient survives despite health system’s failures
Clinic fails to test her for TB, Brooklyn refuses to admit her and doctor advises an abortion but Busi Beko and her daughter survive MDR TB.
Possible new TB drugs ‘ after 40 year wait
An antibiotic commonly used to treat chest infections may be the world's new weapon against tuberculosis, and the first new TB drug in 40 years.
Cheaper TB diagnostics for SA and other high burden countries
South Africa and 38 other countries with high-burdens of tuberculosis (TB) will benefit from a pricing agreement that will see the introduction of a test that is set to initiate a dramatic decrease in the time it takes to test for TB and multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB.