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President Jacob Zuma has announced a range of new measures to fight HIV/Aids and will undergo testing for his HIV status as part of a new campaign to persuade all South Africans to do the same.  |  |


The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a new set of guidelines for the treatment of HIV and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) on 30 November.  |  |
Phoebe Rajula is grateful that she and her daughter have access to life-prolonging antiretroviral medication, but the frequent trips to Mbagathi District Hospital in the capital, Nairobi, for their medication take a toll on her meagre finances and her energy  |  |
THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) wants former president Thabo Mbeki to apologise for his part in the country's HIV/AIDS crisis.  |  |


Sixteen-year-old Andela Milambo* wants a husband. She is not looking for love, but for someone to share the burden of living with HIV. She wants to be able to take her medicine without having to hide, to discuss the recurring  |  |
Today is World Aids Day, and of the 33 million people living with the condition worldwide, over 60% percent live in Sub-Saharan Africa.  |  |
Complacency, ignorance and indifference are reversing Uganda's gains against the Aids epidemic, a senior government official warned yesterday. Dr Kihumuro Apuuli, who heads the Uganda Aids Commission, the government agency responsible for coordinating the fight against Aids, said the number  |  |
Mamaleshoae Nkhahle is a mother of four who works as an expert patient at the Likotsi health clinic in Lesotho's capital, Maseru. She helps people newly diagnosed with HIV to come to grips with the stigma of the disease, and  |  |
Some headway has been made in mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and young people, but too many are still needlessly infected, and receive little or no treatment, care and support.  |  |
In the scorching heat of the midday summer sun, a teenage boy's sharp voice can be heard vividly as he continuously summons his cattle. Glad in his shabby-looking rag that used to be a blanket and black gumboots, the only  |
It is World AIDS Day today. Our country has been lauded for its effective and visionary handling of the HIV/AIDS problem.  |  |
State-sponsored AIDS denialism is finally a thing of the past, after years of obfuscation on one of SA's most pressing challenges. Almost 10 years to the day after former president Thabo Mbeki told the National Council of Provinces it would  |  |
The governments of Ghana and the United States will commemorate World Aids Day tomorrow, December 1, by signing into action the 2010 United States President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR) Implementation Plan.  |  |
The WHO yesterday called for people living with HIV, the virus that causes Aids, to start life-prolonging treatment earlier but government officials announced that they could not conform with the directive.  |  |
Today is the World Aids Day. In Uganda it will be 27 years since the first case of a person living with HIV/Aids was diagnosed and made public. But today's commemoration rather than mark a celebration of gains made in  |  |
For millions of South Africans infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, this year's World AIDS Day will signify a wave of change.  |
General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) Prof. John Idoko says the wide gaps in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) need to be addressed, particularly the issue of breast feeding by women living with HIV.  |  |
THE number of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide continued to grow in 2008, reaching an estimated 33 million, according to the just released report of UNAIDS.  |  |
UNITED Nations (UN) Special Envoy on AIDS in Africa, Elizabeth Mataka has called for long-term, sustainable programmes aimed at addressing factors which make women and girls more vulnerable to HIV infections.  |  |
The following statement was delivered by the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Eisenhower Executive Office in Washington, DC.  |  |
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