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The Geography Division of the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal hosted a seminar on 24 February 2006 on the impact of HIV and AIDS on the environment.

The Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, has released a report focusing on how HIV/AIDS affects the way we conserve our natural environment.

Between 30 percent and 45 percent of South African farm workers are estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS, the National African Farmers' Union Summit heard earlier this week.

The impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture in Southern Africa is now well recognised. But a new report is calling for a rethink of current views on the effects of the epidemic and more concrete and specific regional responses.

The September 2004 South and North Coast's HIV/AIDS Fora, hosted by HIVAN, were held at the Shallcross Community Hall in the South Coast and the Verulam Child and Family Welfare Society in the North Coast. The title for these fora was “The Dream Centre – Palliative Medical Care?.

This essay was invited by USAID, and is intended to inform its strategic planning in agriculture. It seeks to create an awareness of the connections between rural poverty, undernutrition, and HIV/AIDS in developing nations and to then suggest specific cross-sector investment strategies that can be used more effectively to combat the three.

HIV/AIDS will kill 20 percent of southern Africa's agricultural workers by 2020, researchers said on Thursday, possibly threatening food production in a region already facing frequent shortages.

At first sight, the issues of HIV/AIDS and water would appear to bear very little relation to each other. HIV/AIDS is a global-scale pandemic that is transmitted between people primarily through sexual contact, while water is a renewable natural resource of which the availability depends on a variety of geographic and climatic factors.

The impact of HIV/AIDS on food security in Southern Africa is now well recognised. The critical question is what can be done to halt the slide into poverty by affected households, a report released on Wednesday by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) said.

The common lament running through the South African Health Review (SAHR) for 2002 is government’s failure to provide the country with the legal tools to guide the transformation of healthcare services.