It's yes to Nevirapine in final blow to Dr No

The Constitutional Court on Friday denied the government leave to appeal against a High Court order compelling it to provide anti-AIDS drugs in state hospitals.

UNAIDS Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic

Zambia may become the second African country - after Uganda - to reverse a widespread HIV/AIDS epidemic, a new UNAIDS report said on Tuesday. New data in the UNAIDS "Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic" indicates that HIV prevalence among young Zambian women has fallen from 28 percent in 1996 to 24 percent in 1999 in urban areas, and from 16 percent to 12 percent in rural areas.

HIV man defies death and state

Treatment Action Campaign AIDS activists have scored yet another decisive victory against the government, but it is still not enough to persuade their leader to take the life-saving drugs he desperately needs.

Share your story about HIV/AIDS - Creative Writing Competition

Writers who have never been published before are invited to submit their poems, story or testimony about HIV/AIDS for entry in a writing competition. Winning authors will receive cash prizes and their entries will be published alongside work by previously published authors in an anthology of creative writing on HIV/AIDS from Southern Africa.

Are we accountable against our promises?

If Durban 2000 was a wake up call, Barcelona 2002 is likely to be the "yes, but–" Conference, with the biggest cautionary being accountability. Or as UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot says, "will promises be kept?"

Update on the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS

ICASO has released a new publication - "Update on the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS".

The Global Fuds growing pains

Its still too early to say whether the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will succeed in raising and intelligently disbursing sufficient billions of dollars to have a significant impact. But it certainly got off to a hard-working high-speed start - albeit one which involved a couple of stumbles along the way.

ARV treatment can work in poor communities

Two pilot anti-retroviral (ARV) programmes, underway in South Africa and Uganda, have demonstrated that AIDS treatment campaigns are possible in poor communities. What's missing to scale-up these initiatives into national programmes is funding and the political will, healthcare workers say.

Just one 75c dose can save a baby

A single dose of Nevirapine given to a baby as soon as possible after birth drastically reduces the chances of the child becoming HIV-infected.

Manto denies poison comment, but damage done

Anger and dismay have erupted at the International AIDS Conference following Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's comment that anti-retrovirals are "poisons" killing "our people".