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World experts give antiretrovirals the go-ahead

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Experts believe "the benefits outweigh the potential adverse effects" in the use of antiretroviral drugs to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV.

kerrycullinan
October 26, 2000

Provinces delay on Nevirapine research

Health

Concerns around the efficacy of the drug Nevirapine in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV causes delays in provinces responding to an October 1 deadline for identifying their own sites for testing. KERRY CULLINAN reports.

kerrycullinan
October 9, 2000

Mbeki sites poverty and not AIDS as biggest killer

Health

Extreme poverty and not HIV/AIDS is the world's biggest killer and the greatest cause of ill-health and suffering, President Thabo Mbeki told some 12 000 delegates at the opening of the13th world AIDS conference in Durban.

kerrycullinan
July 10, 2000

‘Cut-price’ anti-AIDS drugs may still cost more than generics

Health

The fresh offer from five major pharmaceutical companies to reduce the price of anti-AIDS drugs still does not answer the vexed question of what is their best possible discounted price.

Ali Karriem
May 18, 2000

Attack on drug companies at hearings into AIDS

Health

What was supposed to be hearings by parliament's health portfolio committee into finding solutions to South Africa's high number of HIV infections, turned into an attack on the pharmaceutical industry this week. But with good reason

ansothom
May 12, 2000

Fighting each other – but not AIDS

Health

Sarafina, Virodene, unspent millions - in a country with one of the fastest growing AIDS epidemics in the world, it's sobering to say the least that these are the predominant associations one makes with the fight against AIDS in South Africa. The AIDS Review 2000, released by the Centre for the Study of AIDS at the University of Pretoria and written by Hein Marais, offers a fascinating overview of the South African response to HIV/AIDS since 1994.

Ali Karriem
April 20, 2000

AIDS panel to complete work by June, says minister

Health

"The South African government is not stupid... We will not say tomorrow that HIV does not cause AIDS," says the health minister, who says that the international panel on HIV/AIDS that she is putting together will help to find an African approach to the epidemic.

kerrycullinan
April 7, 2000

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