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PEPFAR 20 years: We no longer see the “look of HIV”

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Dhirisha Naidoo remembers the “look of HIV” vividly. She saw it on a daily basis when she was a nurse at a mission hospital in Durban just out of college in 2004. “People were usually very thin, skin and bone,…

How CLM shapes health innovation in HIV fight

Fully funding HIV response key to saving lives

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Fully financing the HIV response in Africa to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 will save millions of lives and improve economic outcomes. But governments must act immediately. That’s the message from new research and analysis conducted…

Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
April 13, 2023

Red Ribbon campaign for World Aids Day awareness

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KWA-ZULU NATAL - The Hillcrest Aids Centre Trust (HACT), a non-profit organisation based in the Valley of 1000 Hills outer west of Durban, has started a Red Ribbon Fridays campaign to raise awareness of HIV and Aids as well as educate people about the disease.

SandileMbili
December 1, 2017

SA can protect sex workers from HIV – Minister

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South Africa does not need to wait for laws to decriminalise sex workers before protecting this sector from HIV, according to Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.

kerrycullinan
November 21, 2017

It’s something from God Living with AIDS

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Natalia Baloyi has a lot to smile about these days. Hers is a tale of what hope and determination can help one achieve in times of trouble. Almost three years ago, as a 22 year-old Natalia was unemployed and head of a household with three siblings and a son of her own following the death of her parents from a suspected AIDS-related disease. Health-e goes back to the young women we first met in 2001 at her home in Marironi village outside Tzaneen in Limpopo province.

healthe
March 11, 2004

More than 4-million living with HIV/AIDS in SA

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For the first time there are signs that HIV incidence may have stabilised in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. But with 4,2-million infected people, South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world. Anso Thom reports on the latest UNAIDS/WHO report

ansothom
November 28, 2000

Gauteng builds its armoury against HIV/AIDS

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For once, it's good news. Gauteng is getting it right in its fight against HIV/AIDS.

kerrycullinan
November 28, 2000

45% of adults will become HIV infected

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Almost half of South Africa's 15-year olds will become infected with HIV during the course of their lifetime. And the probability of die before the age of 60. But it is important to unpack these frightening figures in order to make sense of them. Jo Stein reports

healthe
October 27, 2000

The gay community: a hidden HIV/AIDS epidemic?

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There are many men in South Africa who have sex with other men but don't consider themselves "gay". In the absence of funding for research, the extent of HIV infection among homsexual men in South Africa is largely unknown. But recent research conducted by the Triangle Project in Cape Town shows that risk-taking behaviour among gay men in the Mother City is alarmingly high. Jo Stein reports.

healthe
October 17, 2000

New report sheds light on dire situation at North West public clinics.

Quality of health care declines in SA

Health Systems

The problem of access has been sited as one of the reasons for the decline in the quality of healthcare in South Africa.

kerrycullinan
October 12, 2000

Provinces delay on Nevirapine research

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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

The highs and lows of the AIDS 2000 conference

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Now that the delegates have left town, the exhibition halls emptied and the media centre silent, what impact has the 13th International AIDS conference had on efforts to prevent and treat the disease in our country? Sue Valentine reports

healthe
August 21, 2000

The conference of death

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AIDS pandemic forces communities to confront two of the world's most uncomfortable taboos: death and sex, conference learns.

kerrycullinan
July 18, 2000

Campaign for cheap drugs from Thailand

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"Very high" medicine prices have prompted HIV/AIDS activist organisation to mount "legal action" against [drug company] Pfizer, to bring generic medicine into the country from Thailand to help treat HIV positive people.

kerrycullinan
July 14, 2000

Empower women to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS

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Addressing delegates at the AIDS 2000 conference on the role of gender and sexuality in the transmission of HIV/AIDS , Dr Geeta Rao Gupta said that "Empowering women does not disempower men".

healthe
July 13, 2000

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