HIV

How sex workers are avoiding HIV infection

Once daily pill has been made available at ten clinics across the country

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News | 17 July 2016

Success against deadly drug-resistant TB in rural KZN

Number of cases has dropped dramatically following bunch of health interventions

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News | 16 July 2016

No HIV transmissions after sex 58,000 times without condoms

Amazing result in a study of couples where one partner is HIV-positive and on antiretroviral treatment

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News | 13 July 2016

Bizarre state involvement in AIDS conference

Security agency leads media accreditation process

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Brief | 8 July 2016

Survey finds massive medicine shortages in clinics

Mpumalanga and Gauteng have the most stockouts of HIV and TB medicines

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Feature | 24 June 2016

Treatment for everyone with HIV: what will it mean?

Patients will benefit and there will be fewer new infections

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Explainer | 17 May 2016

New, better HIV drugs can save billions of rand

But South Africa needs to be proactive to take advantage of new medicines

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News | 5 May 2016

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