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Too soon to speak of the end of AIDS

Health

There has been remarkable progress in the AIDS response. We have come a long way since the 13th International AIDS Conference was hosted in Durban in 2000. Professor Chris Beyrer, Professor Linda-Gail Bekker and Professor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi discuss...

healthe
July 18, 2016

South Africa on the front foot and moving forwards

Health

The June 2000 UNAIDS global report on AIDS painted a sombre picture: already South Africa had the greatest number of people living with HIV than any other country in the world and life expectancy had fallen rapidly to historical levels write Professor Linda-Gail Bekker and Professor Robin Wood.

healthe
July 17, 2016

All eyes are on the World AIDS Conference 2016

Health, Our Health

As the countdown to the 21st International AIDS Conference to be held in Durban enters the last few days, the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality responded to SANAC Chairperson and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appeal for coordinated activities to mark the event.

mpholekgetho
July 14, 2016

Losing a child to HIV

Health, Our Health

After her first child died of AIDS and she miscarried her second, Melita enrolled in the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programme and saved her third.

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

Search for AIDS cure to be intensified

Health, Health Systems

The search for an AIDS cure will be intensified, according to the International AIDS Society (IAS), which yesterday published its cure strategies and priorities.

Amy Green
July 12, 2016

Anti-TAC march is condemned

Health, Health Systems

There has been widespread condemnation of a march against the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) organised by the ANC Youth League and others in the Free State.

kerrycullinan
February 23, 2015

SA offers HIV vaccine research hope

Health

BARCELONA - South Africa is the only country in the world where a large AIDS vaccine trial is being planned, as the global scientific community struggles to find a way to eradicate HIV.

kerrycullinan
October 9, 2013
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Mpumalanga launches new Ward AIDS Councils

Health, Our Health

The province’s Msukaligwa Municipality introduces its first 19 Ward AIDS Councils.

senamilephungula
October 3, 2013

HIV messages should include MSM

Health

A survey of 1 700 South African men from the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal revealed that one in 10 men has been sexually assaulted by another man, while about one in 20 report having consensual sexual contact with other men – many who are at the same time in sexual relationships with women, according to research.

Health-e News
June 19, 2013

Little old man Elvis Living with AIDS

Health

In this feature we journey to the village of Maupye in Limpopo to meet a young boy we first met three years ago when exploring the reality of children orphaned as a result of AIDS.

healthe
April 8, 2004

An epidemic of trauma requires prevention rather than cure.

Determinants Of Health

An epidemic of trauma is killing South Africans and draining public health resources at a rate second only to AIDS. But trauma is yet to become a priority public health issue within the Department of Health. Violence and alcohol are the main culprits causing trauma in our country. Jo Stein reports