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Roche ‘booby-trapped’ for cancer drug price

Health

Women protesting against the high cost of breast cancer medicine draped bras all over pharmaceutical company Roche’s stand at the AIDS 2016 conference.

kerrycullinan
July 20, 2016

Study offers new protection to teenagers.

Health

South Africa has the highest HIV infections rate among adolescent new adolescent girls and a new study by the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre is currently testing antiretrovirals to a group of adolescents in a bid to keep them HIV free

sibongilenkosi
July 20, 2016

Youth demand condoms and sanitary pads

Health

Young people hijacked Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s address to the AIDS2016 plenary this morning, demanding that he accept a declaration advocating for condoms and sanitary pads in schools.

kerrycullinan
July 20, 2016

African ‘champions’ might help get new AIDS drugs

Health

Aspen, South Africa’s leading generic medicine producer, has initiated talks with high level African leaders to boost the production of cheaper generic antiretroviral medicine on the continent.

kerrycullinan
July 20, 2016

Not an honour to host AIDS conference – Charlize

Health

It is not an honour to host the 21st international AIDS conference, because we should have eliminated HIV by now, actress Charlize Theron told delegates at the opening of the AIDS conference in Durban last night.

kerrycullinan
July 19, 2016

Marching for increased AIDS funding

News

Civil society groups took to the streets of Durban today , a few hours before the opening of 21st International AIDS Conference, pleading for governments to increase funding for HIV.

sibongilenkosi and sibongilenkosi
July 18, 2016

Curse of the ‘blessers’

Health, News, Our Health

Health minister launches plan to keep girls in school - and out of the clutches of abusive sugar daddies.

Bontle Motsoeneng
July 18, 2016

Life of challenges for HIV-positive children

Health, Our Health

Thousands of children born HIV positive before effective treatment for their pregnant moms are now teenagers and young adults, struggling to negotiate life’s challenges.

lungilengubane and lungilengubane
July 18, 2016

ARVs for HIV negative sex workers

Health, Our Health

AIDS 2016 It might sound strange, but ARVs can prevent HIV as well as treat it. A new programme using ARVs as pre-exposure prophylaxis was launched recently. Lindiwe Msibi reports...

LindiweMsibi
July 18, 2016

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

Making the dwindling AIDS dollars go further

Health

As HIV donor funding dwindles, the world is looking for ways to make less money go further – and one of the best investments is using ARVs to prevent new infections in people most at risk.

Amy Green
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

AIDS2016: The Durban I used to hate

Health

Fifteen years ago, death was everywhere in Durban, the epicentre of AIDS in the world, and the state had been "captured" by AIDS denialists

kerrycullinan
July 15, 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.

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