Aids
COVID-19: Karim raises concern about HIV+ patients not on ARVs
Karim is advising the government on its COVID-19 response and he presented a comprehensive outlook on the expected trajectory of the pandemic in the country.
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‘A déjà vu moment’: Rural communities liken COVID-19 to HIV/Aids
With not enough awareness about the coronavirus’ origins or workings, some rural dwellers have likened it to the HIV/Aids pandemic that wiped out families and communities in the 1990s to early 2000s in South Africa.
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UN concerned by revelations of forced sterlisation in SA hospitals
The Commission for Gender Equality released a report this week, which looked at over 37 cases in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
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Sama wants action against doctors over forced sterilisation of HIV-positive moms
The Commission for Gender Equality has released a report which looked at over 37 cases in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
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HIV/Aids activist Nkosi Johnson honoured with Google Doodle
Today’s doodle honours the life and legacy of a voice of change heard by millions around the world.
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World Aids Day: Hopes that new drug will lower viral load
South Africa boasts the world's best treatment programme which has been given a boost through a new three-in-one pill which is being rolled out.
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World Aids Day: Calls for more work to be done
According to recent report by the United Nations (UN), more than 7 million people in South Africa are living with the virus.
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$14 billion goal in sight for fighting Aids, TB, malaria
The money was promised at a replenishment meeting in Lyon, France, of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, at which Macron engaged in intense diplomacy to exhort countries to step up donations.
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Global Fund seeks $14bn to fight AIDS, malaria, TB
The UN's World Health Organisation says 770,000 people died of HIV-related causes last year.
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10-fold surge in SA teens treated for HIV - study
South Africa has the largest number of HIV-positive people in the world, with around 7.2 million carrying the virus, which causes Aids.
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GSK long-acting HIV injection succeeds in study
The long-acting needle-based combination of its drug cabotegravir and Janssen’s treatment rilpivirine met its main goal in the study, which was testing the regimen in adults with HIV-1 whose virus was suppressed.
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UNAIDS to get new chief after divisive Sidibe era
Opinions on the former executive director of UNAIDS, the Malian national Michel Sidibe, remain deeply divided.
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Aids deaths down a third since 2010: UN
While Aids-related deaths in Africa, the continent most affected by the epidemic, have plummeted this decade, Eastern Europe has seen the death toll rise 5% and the Middle East and North Africa 9%.
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SA team to travel to the US to argue for Aids funding
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi reacts after the US says it may cut its funding for HIV treatment in SA by more than R5 billion.
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HIV positive people with access to treatment across the world
Number of people living with HIV and having access to treatment by region in 2017.
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From within: How HIV attacks immune system
A graphic on how HIV attacks white blood cells in the human body.
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US citizen leaks data on 14,200 people in Singapore with HIV
US citizen Mikhy Farrera Brochez lived in Singapore from 2008 and was convicted in 2017 on numerous drug-related and fraud offences, including lying to the Ministry of Manpower about his own HIV status.
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Bono fears the fight against Aids is being lost
The 58-year-old singer fears the world risks losing the health battle, with governments around the globe increasingly overlooking the issue in order to resolve problems in their own countries.
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[OPINION] Lifestyle diseases could scupper Africa’s rising life expectancy
The leading causes of death in sub-Saharan Africa for adults 15 to 49 years were Aids, tuberculosis, malaria, maternal disorders, and road injuries.
