HIV/AIDS figures "stabilising", new report

New HIV/AIDS figures released by the South African Department of Health show that the pandemic could be stabilising, with not much change in HIV infection rates between 2004 and 2005.

Volunteers help carry HIV/AIDS burden

Ordinary people are doing extraordinary things for the battle against HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa, one of the world's regions hardest hit by the pandemic.

loveLife launches new HIV campaign

Faithfulness, protection and testing are some of the issues taken up by loveLife's new billboard campaign in the fight against HIV infection.

New publications - HIV/AIDS Treatment Education

UNESCO is pleased to announce the release of two new publications on HIV and AIDS Treatment Education:

Bill and Melinda Gates give $500 000 000 for HIV/AIDS

Bill and Melinda Gates have boosted HIV/AIDS coffers on the eve of the world€™s biggest AIDS meeting with a U$500-million contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.

Dedication Ceremony

The 13th Dedication Ceremony organised by the Discipline of Clinical Anatomy was conducted by the Reverend Father Merlin Ince of Saint Anne€™s Church on 27 January.

Putting people in the picture

UKZN€™s Killie Campbell Africana Museum was the scene of a new set of images on February 16-17 at a symposium organised by the Centre for Visual Methodologies for Social Change, Faculty of Education.

Statement on Ubhejane

€œThere is no research from UKZN to support claims that traditional medicine, Ubhejane, can treat or cure AIDS,€ according to Professor Salim S Abdool Karim, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research.

Cutting edge HIV research

Ground breaking research into the GB Virus type C (GBV-C, also referred to as hepatitis G virus) may impact on new approaches to treat and or prevent HIV infection and provide important insights to HIV pathogenesis that may be crucial for vaccine design according to Dr Aslam Sathar, medical scientist at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine. The study was under-taken with scientists from Iowa City VA Medical Center, and Departments of Internal Medicine, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.

Breakthrough

University in the USA, has concluded that zinc supplementation in HIV-1 infected children reduces the incidence of diarrhoea and pneumonia. The study was undertaken on 96 children at Greys Hospital in Pietermaritzburg, and led by Principal Investigator, Professor Raziya Bobat, of the Medical School. The research team included Professor H Coovadia (Victor Daitz Chair in HIV Re-search), Dr William Moss and Professor Robert Black of John Hopkins University.