HIV

Masiphumelele’s clinic unable to serve township’s needs

Calls for facility's service and space to be expanded, but officials say this will be difficult

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News | 4 April 2016

TB kills 1.5 million a year - here’s how to stop it

We must increase access to medicines, diagnostics and vaccines

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Opinion | 22 March 2016

Medicine patent system must be fixed

Current system is not developing enough of the drugs we need

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Opinion | 18 March 2016

Antiretrovirals for all sex workers

We are “affirming the right of all South Africans to life, to dignity, to health" - Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa

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Brief | 17 March 2016

Mbeki is wrong about death statistics

AIDS has for many years been by far the largest cause of death

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Explainer | 14 March 2016

Clearing up two Mbeki misconceptions

There are two misconceptions by Mbeki and people defending him that I wish to debunk.

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Explainer | 13 March 2016

“No credibility as a researcher” - a letter to News24

A former Media24 journalist criticises the country's biggest online news publication for publishing AIDS denialism

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Opinion | 11 March 2016

Will clinics provide medicines to prevent HIV transmission?

A pill reduces the risk of women getting HIV but there are challenges to making it widely available

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Feature | 9 March 2016

Mbeki confirms he is an AIDS denialist

A virus can't cause a syndrome, he says

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Opinion | 7 March 2016

SA researchers develop tool to detect HIV drug resistance

Paradoxically, it might be more useful in the United States than here

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News | 23 February 2016

Ten things you probably don’t know about HIV in 2016

The HIV world is used to things moving fast, in a way that most medicine just doesn’t.

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Explainer | 22 February 2016

Detainees go to court over conditions in Pollsmoor

65 people held in a cell meant for 25

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News | 3 February 2016

Mbeki’s reputation is not in tatters because he was aloof

It's because his policies caused hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths

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Opinion | 1 February 2016

Patients turned away from Mfuleni clinic

Mfuleni community clinic turned away some patients on Friday as staff went to an end-of-the-year function.

Thembela Ntongana

News | 15 December 2015

Khayelitsha kids have fun while learning how to stay healthy

Young children and teenagers packed Khayelitsha's Mew Way Hall to the brim today. They were entertained by the Zip Zap Circus and the Jazzart Dance Theatre. But besides having a day of fun, they also learnt about HIV and how to stay healthy, whether or not infected by the virus.

GroundUp Staff and Bernard ChiguvarePhotos by Masixole Feni

News | 1 December 2015

Call for parliament’s HIV committee to be revived

Civil society groups have called for the revival of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on HIV & AIDS.

Bernard Chiguvare

News | 27 August 2015