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27% of pregnant women in South Africa living with HIV – new survey

News, Women's Health

Findings from South Africa’s most recent Antenatal HIV Sentinel Survey show that more than a quarter (27.5%) of pregnant women in the country are living with HIV. This rate is still high, but it shows a decrease from the 30% prevalence recorded…

Faith Mutizira
December 18, 2023

Close up of child's hands holding the HIV red ribbon.

Children are a blind spot in South Africa’s HIV response

Health Policy, News

By Chris Bateman, Freelance Journalist Only two-thirds of children in South Africa getting treatment for HIV are virally suppressed. Viral suppression is a measure of how well antiretroviral (ARVs) drugs reduce HIV viral load. A high HIV viral load suggests…

Health-e News
November 10, 2023

Beating denial: Learning to live with HIV

Health, Women's Health

Today marks the second anniversary of this young woman's positive HIV test - a two-year journey of highs and lows.

Bontle Motsoeneng
December 1, 2016

Moms with HIV set to get connected

Health, News, Women's Health

MomConnect delivers text messages to women, with information geared towards their stage of pregnancy – and soon pregnant women with HIV will be able to receive specialised messages.

Amy Green
September 8, 2016
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HIV testing Campaigns are still missing the men

Health, Men's Health, News

If we don’t get more heterosexual men to test for HIV, the world is going to miss the UNAIDS target of 90 percent of HIV positive people knowing their status by 2020, according to experts.

sibongilenkosi
July 22, 2016

Children benefit from ‘power of prevention’ – but not adults

News

HIV infection rates amongst children in eastern and southern Africa are steadily declining.

Amy Green
July 13, 2016

Finding out about my HIV status at 13

Health, Our Health

AIDS2016: Being a teen is hard enough, but for Bongani Radebe, it also meant discovering that he had been born with HIV

Bontle Motsoeneng
July 12, 2016

Video: ‘Ok, I have HIV, I want to live a long life’

Health, Multimedia

To commemorate Youth Month in June, Health-e News is broadcasting a five-part adolescent health series on Morning Live (SABC 2). This insert – the third in the series – follows Aphiwe Thamela, an HIV-positive youth who is both raising a daughter and making a difference in her community.

kyla
June 19, 2015

Changing HIV treatment for expecting mums changes more than pills

Health, Health Systems, Women's Health

In January, the country will introduce a big change in antiretroviral (ARV) treatment for pregnant women with HIV. Health workers in the Western Cape, which has been operating under the new treatment plan for over a year, warn that the change means more than just pills for expecting mums.

lauralopez
December 3, 2014

“My ignorance cost me my baby’s life”

Health, Our Health, Women's Health

When Phindile Mashaba was diagnosed with HIV she could not believe it. She says that disbelief killed her daughter.

cynthiamaseko
October 27, 2014

A look back at PMTCT

Health, Our Health, Women's Health

In January, South Africa will begin initiating HIV-positive pregnant women on life-long antiretrovirals (ARVs). OurHealth looks at how far South Africa’s come in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission.

ntulis
August 7, 2014

HIV diagnosis unites young family

Health, Our Health, Women's Health

For some women, an HIV-positive diagnosis during pregnancy can spark domestic violence and abandonment. For Nokuzola Tholeduna, her diagnosis brought her young family together.

mtshanamvlisi
July 18, 2014

Inheriting HIV: A bitter pill to swallow

Health, Our Health, Women's Health

Ten years after South Africa began providing free HIV treatment, a generation of children born with HIV continues to come of age with the virus. One young Mpumalanga man shares his story.

senamilephungula
July 3, 2014

Women still falling through PMTCT cracks

Health, Our Health

South Africa has charted steady and significant decreases in mother-to-child HIV transmission rates in recent years but prevention of mother-to-child HIV (PMTCT) campaigns may still be starting HIV-positive mothers on treatment too late.

tshilidzituwani
April 14, 2014

ARV programme saves 780 000 lives

Health, News

South Africa’s HIV antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programme saved 780 000 lives between 2003 and 2012, according to a recently released independent review.

kerrycullinan
April 11, 2014

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