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The 2006 antenatal survey was conducted to estimate the prevalence of HIV infection the antenatal survey was conducted in all nine provinces using the standard unlinked anonymous methodology (WHO/UNAIDS). To enhance the sensitivity of the estimates and to provide greater robustness the HIV sample size was expanded in 2006 to provide (for the first time) prevalence estimates for each district in the country in addition to the national and provincial rates. A total of 33033 women participated from 1415 health facilities (in comparison to 16510 participants in 2005).

A recent survey of clothing companies in KwaZulu-Natal revealed that HIV/AIDS is having a serious affect and effect on this industrial sector. Even though the study is exploratory and does not go into details the results of the survey warrants further investigation.

For years, there has been a battle over the best way to protect babies born to HIV positive mothers living in poor areas from getting the virus – which has essentially boiled down to a battle between those who advocate breast feeding and those who advocate bottle-feeding with milk formula.

Local and international experts agree with important new findings this week that faith-based organisations (FBOs) have a major contribution to make to curbing HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic, often regarded as a disease of the poor, is in fact spreading quickly among the country's richest and best educated people, researchers said on Tuesday.

Hundreds of media organisations, nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and government agencies are producing information about HIV and AIDS. But how much of that information is accessible and useful to AIDS organisations on the ground and who is benefiting from it?

This report, released every two years by the Actuarial Society of South Africa in conjunction with the Centre for Actuarial Research and the Medical Research Council, was prepared by Rob Dorrington, Leigh Johnson, Debbie Bradshaw and Timothy-John Daniel.

Around a quarter of South Africans could suffer from mental illness each year, while HIV/AIDS is systematically undermining all the health gains made in the post-apartheid era, according to the SA Health Review.

The global HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to grow and there is concerning evidence that some countries are seeing a resurgence in new HIV infection rates which were previously stable or declining.

A survey has revealed that 14 television and radio programmes and four print media campaigns to raise HIV/AIDS awareness have had a "very profound" effect on people's attitude and behaviour.