President Jacob Zuma has declared that African leaders aimed to deliver on their commitments to allocate 15% of their budgets to health care and to allocate an amount for maternal, newborn and child health care.

Women in abusive relationships have a higher risk of being infected with HIV, a South African Medical Research Council study has found.

Pittsburgh '€“ A microbicide that researchers are pinning their hopes on is safe for use in pregnant women, according to a study presented at the Microbicide 2010 conference taking place in the United States this week.

A review of available studies on Efavirenz has found no increased risk of overall birth defects among women exposed to the antiretroviral during the first trimester of pregnancy compared with exposure to other antiretroviral drugs. The results were published in the AIDS Journal and comes after the South African Government opted not to include the drug due to what specialists described a unfounded fears of birth defects.