Aids Focus

'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

'Men must join Aids battle'

"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.

• Govt must 'intensify Aids fight'
• Zuma praised for Aids speech

HIV travel ban: Praise for US

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.

• Obama lifts HIV travel ban

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.