Aids Focus

SABC drops Aids documentary

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.

• Documentary: SABC 'took too long'
• Mbeki blamed for Aids crisis

Hands off Mbeki - Malema

The ANC Youth League will not allow former president Thabo Mbeki to be charged with genocide, league president Julius Malema says.

• Mbeki blamed for Aids crisis

'Grave concern' over Aids deaths

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.

• Mbeki blamed for Aids crisis
• ARV programme may be extended

ARV programme may be extended

The health ministry is doing cost studies on extending its antiretroviral therapy programme to HIV carriers with a higher CD4 count.

• Time for new Aids attack: Zuma
• Minister: War on Aids not lost
• HIV spread outruns treatment

Antenatal HIV prevalence is 29%

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.

Treatment for poor up tenfold

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.

• Earlier HIV treatment needed
• SA to raise Aids treatment
• Activists 'watching' leaders

Expert: Aids vaccine not enough

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.