2009-12-01 22:10
The KwaZulu-Natal government has turned its attention to local councillors in the fight against the spread of HIV.
2009-12-01 22:10
Calls for an end to discrimination against sufferers rang out on World Aids Day as SA, the country worst affected by the pandemic, rolled out a new battle plan to beat the virus.
2009-12-01 11:12
A 26-year-old HIV-positive woman says she is still battling to accept her status, and is terrified to tell her family and friends.
2009-12-01 07:37
The US says it is giving South Africa $120m for Aids treatment, in response to a plea from President Jacob Zuma that underlines his new approach to fighting the epidemic.
2009-11-30 19:03
ANC leaders, including its KwaZulu-Natal chairperson Zweli Mkhize, have tested for HIV during the launch of the party's KwaZulu-Natal awareness campaign about the virus.
2009-11-30 22:17
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal has admitted the party has been weak in fighting HIV/Aids and has relied too heavily on government.
2009-11-30 21:15
WHO has issued new advice on the treatment of HIV saying drugs should be given earlier and even be prescribed to breastfeeding mothers.
2009-11-30 17:46
Stocks of medicine for HIV/ Aids patients that have reportedly run out at a clinic in Mpumalanga will be available from December again.
2009-11-30 14:12
An HIV+ woman's failed attempt to adopt her little brother shows how discrimination against people with Aids is still rampant in Russia.
2009-11-30 13:03
Rape victims should be encouraged to apply for compulsory HIV testing of alleged rapists, says Minister of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya.
2009-11-25 07:42
Aids has now killed 25m people around the world, but the number of new infections is slowing sharply, the UN says.
2009-11-24 15:50
Pointing fingers at the administration of former president Thabo Mbeki is not helpful in dealing with SA's HIV/Aids problems, says Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.
2009-11-23 15:41
A doctor who was fired for giving ARVs to rape victims when it was against government policy says it is too late to charge Thabo Mbeki for genocide.
2009-11-16 22:38
The ANC Youth League will not allow former president Thabo Mbeki to be charged with genocide, league president Julius Malema says.
2009-11-06 15:06
"There is a new man in SA," proclaims a new ad aiming to transform ideas about sexuality and to enlist men in the fight against HIV/Aids.
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.
2009-12-01 17:05
It's the first happy World Aids Day, Medecins Sans Frontieres has said following the presidency's announcement about a change in its ARV treatment programme.
2009-12-01 16:35
President Jacob Zuma is the architect who will rewrite the future of HIV/Aids across the continent, says executive director of UNAids Michel Sidibe.
2009-12-01 08:52
Six years after contracting HIV through a blood transfusion, a young man wants to become a pastor.
2009-11-30 22:17
An Algerian health organisation has warned that thousands of people are unknowingly infected with the Aids virus.
2009-11-30 22:17
The head of the UN Aids programme will celebrate World Aids Day in SA, where nearly 1 000 people die of Aids-related diseases every day.
2009-11-30 21:15
French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is calling for greater efforts to beat mother-to-child HIV transmission by 2015.
2009-11-30 21:15
The Western Cape is planning three pioneering initiatives in the fight against Aids.
2009-11-30 21:15
KwaZulu-Natal intends doing away with long waiting lists for life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs in the province's public hospitals.
2009-11-30 09:31
People infected with the virus that causes Aids should start treatment earlier than currently recommended, says the World Health Organisation.
2009-11-30 08:42
The SA Medical Association has called on people to have HIV tests to mark World Aids Day.
2009-11-24 21:06
The survival of HIV-positive South Africans should not be in the hands of incompetent or under-performing managers, healthcare organisations have urged.
2009-11-24 11:06
The National Association for People Living with HIV/Aids says calls for Thabo Mbeki and Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to be charged with genocide are unhelpful.
2009-11-17 09:41
A documentary which blames former president Thabo Mbeki's Aids denialism for the deaths of 330 000 people, will not be broadcast by the SABC, but will be shown on e.tv.
2009-11-11 14:18
The SA Medical Association says it is "gravely concerned" about HIV/Aids statistics which show a huge Aids-related leap in South Africa's death rate.
2009-11-06 13:04
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has told a conference on living with HIV/Aids that the government must "come out with guns blazing" to fight the scourge.
2009-10-30 18:30
President Barack Obama is lifting the United States' travel ban for those who are HIV-positive.
2009-10-29 22:28
President Jacob Zuma has called for a change of behaviour and a renewed onslaught against HIV/Aids.
2009-10-05 18:04
HIV prevalence among pregnant women has stabilised at around 29%, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has said during the release of a survey of antenatal HIV.
2009-10-05 17:06
New HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa are growing twice as quickly as antiretroviral drugs are rolled out, despite a 39% hike in treatment access, according to UNAids.
2009-09-28 21:07
Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille has welcomed President Jacob Zuma's comments about HIV/ Aids during an interview with CNN.
2009-09-24 09:00
An experimental Aids vaccine has for the first time cut the risk of infection, as researchers hail a medical "breakthrough" in the quarter-century battle against the disease.
2009-09-21 22:13
Scientists at the CSIR are testing a mixture of indigenous plants used by a traditional healer who claims it can cure HIV/Aids.