2009-11-01 13:02
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has hailed US President Barack Obama's removal of a travel ban on HIV-positive visitors, and urged other countries to do the same.
2009-10-30 14:06
The health ministry is doing cost studies on extending its antiretroviral therapy programme to HIV carriers with a higher CD4 count.
2009-10-24 08:56
African leaders should be more serious about protecting the continent's children from Aids, Nelson Mandela's wife Graca Machel said.
2009-10-05 21:04
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says South Africa "seems to be losing the battle against Aids, but not yet the war".
2009-10-05 17:06
More than four million people from poor and middle-income countries received HIV/Aids treatment in 2008, marking a tenfold increase in access to medication over five years, says a UN report.
2009-09-24 15:42
An Aids vaccine that cuts the risk of HIV infection by a third is "good news but the effect remains modest", one of France's top Aids scientists has said.
2009-09-22 16:13
Promoters of male circumcision as a weapon against HIV will have to reckon with a Zulu belief that partial circumcision means better sex, according to researchers.