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by Khopotso Bodibe It was September 2005. South African Aids activists were busy focusing on countering rampant Aids denialism and trying to get government to speed up access to antiretroviral medication for millions of HIV-positive citizens. At Durban's Westville Prison, another sad chapter in South…

SOUTH Africa should set a bold example to the rest of the world by resolving to triple the number of people on anti-retroviral medication by 2015.This is according to a coalition of organisations, including the Treatment Action Campaign and Doctors Without Borders (DWB), that is…

Original Source The International Partnership for Microbicides in Silver Spring, Maryland, has announced a $100 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in support of its work to develop microbicides that give women in developing countries the power to protect themselves against HIV…

The Health Department has reported a drop in HIV prevalence in its annual survey - but researchers warn that it's too soon to tell. "The findings suggest that the South African epidemic is on a downward trend," Minister of Health Manto Tshabala-la-Msimang said in her…

Johannesburg - South African government officials and celebrities will take part in voluntary HIV counselling and testing session at the Germiston Civic Centre on Friday, the Ekurhuleni municipality said. This was in line with the launch of "Knowing My HIV Status Kuyaphilisa (Keeps Me Alive)"…

Original Source by Khopotso Bodibe The Department of Health may in future allow people living with HIV to get antiretroviral drugs earlier. At present, people relying on public sector health can only get the medication when their CD4 count, which measures the level of immunity…

Original Source HIV prevalence among pregnant women has stabilised at about 29%, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Monday. "The prevalence among women aged 25 and above has stabilised at high and unacceptable levels," Motsoaledi said in Pretoria, releasing the 2008 results of a survey…

The new health minister broke dramatically Monday from a decade of discredited South African government policies on AIDS, declaring that the disease was unquestionably caused by HIV and must be treated with conventional medicine. Health Minister Barbara Hogan's pronouncement marked the official end to denial…

by Tamar Kahn CAPE TOWN - Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang yesterday promised to crack the whip and get her officials to post the latest antenatal HIV survey online. The annual survey is one of the government's most important gauges of how effective its HIV prevention…

DURBAN, 22 June 2011 (PlusNews) - Thirty years after the discovery of AIDS, conspiracy theories that posit the virus as man-made continue to enjoy support among a segment of South African youth - and these beliefs may be putting them at greater risk of HIV…