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Aids Focus

Mbeki blamed for Aids crisis

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has unveiled shocking figures showing a huge Aids-related leap in South Africa's death rate - and he's blaming Thabo Mbeki's government.

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'Grave concern' over Aids deaths

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.

'Men must join Aids battle'

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.

HIV travel ban: Praise for US

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.

ARV programme may be extended

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.

 

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Antenatal HIV prevalence is 29%

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.

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Treatment for poor up tenfold

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.

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Expert: Aids vaccine not enough

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.

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Division over circumcision

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.

 
The African continent

HIV spread outruns treatment

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.

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De Lille backs Zuma comment

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.

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Vaccine cuts Aids infection risk by 31%

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.

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CSIR tests healer's HIV 'cure'

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.

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