Walking away from being a successful business person in her community to start a non-governmental AIDS programme, Lorna Fisher gave away the opportunity to get very rich. But her work in the HIV field has now gained her recognition as one of the most inspirational women in South Africa.
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People living with HIV have a critical role to play in preventing new HIV infections. A new strategy aims to enlist the help of HIV-infected people in preventing the spread of HIV.
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Only one in three Mozambicans, Tanzanians and Zimbabweans who need antiretroviral medicine are getting it, according to new research.
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While the developing world is still reeling from the blow of foreign funders’ withdrawal from supporting AIDS programmes, South African Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, says he is not alarmed that the donor community is now going back on its promise of support.
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For the first time, the global AIDS community is talking about stopping the AIDS within a couple of decades – and it seems possible.
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Good nutrition helps keep your immune system strong and it’s especially important for people living with HIV, as it enables them to better fight the condition.
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Antiretroviral medicine can play a huge part in preventing positive people from transmitting the virus – but only if they keep their viral loads undetectable.
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Decriminalising sex work would go a long way towards removing the hurdles sex workers face when trying to get health services, especially for HIV.
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“I am a woman trapped in a man’s body. People ask me whether I am a woman and I answer, no. I have no feelings to women, I prefer relationships with men.”
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Moriscia Cloete (37) bucks the trend. Many sex workers share stories of broken, unhappy, abusive homes and childhoods, but the tall woman with the easy smile recalls growing up “with a good family” and receiving a solid education.
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When the South African National AIDS Council launches the new National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS and TB later today, it will highlight the prevention of new infections as a key aim. The plan is the start of a long-term vision to be accomplished over 20 years.
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Working up the courage to discuss your sex life with a health worker is challenging at the best of times. For men who have sex with men and transgender women, it’s simply too tough to contemplate and many of them simply decline seeking healthcare or delay until it is too late. A clinic in Cape Town is changing that.
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CAPE TOWN - Heroin addict, cocaine addict, crystal methaphetamine (Tik) addict, drug dealer, teenage prostitute, porn actor, HIV-positive by 15, TV star, you name it, Zack Smit has pretty much been there, done that.
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Government’s new five-year plan to address HIV is based on a few big, proven interventions aimed at maximum impact rather than a shopping list of small ideas. The National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2012 - 2016, to be launched in Port Elizabeth today (1 Dec), will cost in the region of R131-billion.
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Over the last three years HIV prevalence among older women between the ages of 30 – 34 has been growing, while it remains the same in younger women aged 15 – 24. This is according to the 21st antenatal survey measuring HIV prevalence among first time pregnant women. The survey included women from as young as 10 year-old adolescents.
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People living with HIV/AIDS often endure lack of support from friends and family and suffer low self-esteem, which may result in depression. This can complicate one’s journey to a healthy life.
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EDITORIAL: Two years ago in Cape Town, Dr Reuben Granich of the World Health Organisation presented a scenario at a high-level AIDS science meeting. It was viewed as controversial at the time, but for the first time we could truly dream of ending the devastation of HIV.
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OPINION: HIV treatment centres for children generally take good care of their young patients’ physical well-being but they do not to help children to know, and come to terms with, their HIV status. By Mandla Nyuswa.
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South Africa continues to have high HIV infection rates among the 15 to 24 year old pregnant women and increasingly so among the 10 to 14 year olds, the latest Government antenatal survey has revealed.
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OPINION: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has been the international financial armada in the battle against the three diseases. The collapse of the next round of Global Fund grants, known as Round 11, is the most serious, catastrophic setback in the Fund's decade of existence. By Stephen Lewis.
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OPINION: Reducing the number of partners and using condoms are still the most effective ways to prevent the spread of HIV. By Richard Delate.
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The early treatment of people with HIV massively reduces their infectiousness and gives the world our first real opportunity to halt the HIV epidemic.
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OPINION: December 1, 2011 is an enormously significant date for all South Africans. On that day, World AIDS Day, the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) will launch the new and finalized 2012-2016 National Strategic Plan for HIV, STIs and TB, which has been developed over the last year.
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OPINION: HIV is spread through promiscuity. So goes the popular wisdom. What if this is wrong? By Francois Venter.
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In a huge blow to HIV prevention, a major trial of a vaginal gel expected to protect women was stopped on Friday (25 Nov) after it was found to have no effect on preventing HIV. This result was unexpected and contradicted an earlier trial of the same vaginal gel, called a microbicide, containing the antiretroviral tenofovir.
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