“HIV has probably been one of the biggest gifts that have ever been given to me” writes Clive Harvey Fox, a 51 year old Capetonian in his book, “Finding my Gift.”
Read more

Ten years after being diagnosed with HIV, Pholokgolo Ramothwala has stopped waiting for his death. Instead, he says he is looking after his health, hopes to stop drinking alcohol and is working on creating financial security for his children.
Read more

The United States Senate has repealed the entry and immigration ban on HIV-positive non-citizens.
Read more

The Cape High Court landed the final nail in the coffin of vitamin salesman Matthias Rath’s South African operations and delivered a blow to organisations peddling untested remedies when it ruled that the German doctor’s clinical trials were unlawful.
Read more

Men are generally known to be reluctant to test for HIV. But statistics collected by New Start, a non governmental organization working in getting people to test for HIV, suggest the opposite.
Read more

The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has urged whites and Indians to take part in the third South African National HIV, Behavior and Health Survey, which is now underway. This follows past observations that the two racial groups do not want to participate in HIV surveys.
Read more

The arrival of the first batch of ARVs in June, 2005, at Madwaleni Hospital, in the rural area of Mbashe outside Mthatha, in the Eastern Cape, changed how health-care workers and the community view AIDS.
Read more

In a few week's time, results of a major Phase 3 microbicide trial will be released and the women who took part can't wait for the results
Read more

Anthony Brink takes on Ronald Suresh Roberts over his portrayal of Mbeki’s views on HIV/AIDS
Read more

The spread of HIV/AIDS in rural areas has seen some people blaming migrant workers as being largely responsible for the spread of the pandemic.
Read more

Despite long-running AIDS awareness campaigns by the government, non-governmental organizations and other civil society groupings, a great number of people still prefer to die a silent death than to go for an HIV test.
Read more

The National Strategic Plan (NSP) target to place another 120 000 adults and 70 000 children on antiretrovirals by the end of the year was not simply a government matter, Health department Director-General Thami Mseleku told journalists yesterday.
Read more

The government’s policy of not awarding foster care grants to undocumented orphans has come under the spotlight as the number of AIDS orphans continues to increase.
Read more

Ngwavuma, in the north of KwaZulu-Natal province near the Swaziland border, has been hard-hit by HIV/AIDS. The resulting problem is the increase of children-headed households.
Read more

The CEO of the R146-million Health and Welfare Sector Education and Training Authority (HWSETA) has been suspended, allegedly for “gross misconduct” – yet he claims it is because he questioned his board’s operations, particularly huge payments made to some board members.
Read more

The new urgency with which the government has started to address AIDS is like rain falling after a long drought. But it will take superhuman, united efforts to implement the country’s new HIV/AIDS National Strategic Plan (NSP) and repair the damage done by years of government inaction, denial and simple incompetence.
Read more

Health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was repeatedly invited to speak at Tuesday’s opening ceremony, organizers have revealed.
Read more

Hardly back in her office after a lengthy lay-off and Health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang immediately placed herself at odds with the AIDS community.
Read more

While South Africa has taken “giant leaps” by reaching consensus on a national response to HIV/AIDS for the next five years, the biggest challenge is its implementation, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told the third national AIDS conference at its opening last night (Tuesday).
Read more

Ambiguous statements by political leaders about HIV/AIDS could cause massive damage to the response to the pandemic, Dr Donald Dickinson an Associate Professor at Wits Business School has said.
Read more

The spread of HIV /AIDS, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal province, has seen an increase of patients who receive home-based care from different hospices in the province.
Read more

The much talked about Johannesburg-based Zuzimpilo Medical Centre is experiencing difficulties in meeting its target of enrolling 1000 people on ARV treatment before the end of the year.
Read more

The Treatment Action Campaign has publicly called on the deputy president and the acting health minister to settle the court case involving the civil society Aids group, doctors, government and vitamin salesman Matthias Rath.
Read more

Startling new evidence from a three-year survey shows that HIV is now growing fastest among those who are wealthier and educated.
Read more

The government’s policy of not awarding foster care grants to undocumented orphans has come under the spotlight as the number of AIDS orphans continues to increase.
Read more