At the epicentre: Bangkok 2004

The International AIDS Society, UNAIDS and the Royal Thai Government have concluded an agreement to hold the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, from 11 to 16 July 2004.

War on AIDS: 'all cash and no action'

South Africa is awash with funding for HIV/AIDS prevention and care. However, lack of management capacity, national strategies in their infancy and "shaky" co-operation between Pretoria and the provinces have the potential to result in major under-spending in fighting the epidemic.

Groote Schuur has mother of all HIV projects

A project started at Groote Schuur Hospital in which HIV-positive mothers counsel pregnant women about AIDS could spread to clinics in other countries.

Patients in HIV/AIDS research often come last

Medical researchers in HIV/AIDS are often putting the interests of the patient last. That's according to a seminar on ethics at the 14th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona.

Clinton and Mandela Call for Action on AIDS

Former President Clinton and South African leader Nelson Mandela called on world leaders Friday to recognise that the AIDS epidemic is a threat to international peace and economic stability. "We cannot lose our war against AIDS and win our battle against poverty, promote stability, advance democracy and increase peace and prosperity," Clinton told a Barcelona audience that cheered wildly as he and Mandela embraced.

TAC Statement on KZN Global Fund Allocation

The Treatment Action Campaign is very concerned at the turn of events related to the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria allocation to Kwazulu-Natal. The Minister of Health's handling of this debacle is seriously damaging.

Mbeki rejects calls for Manto to quit

Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is staying put despite a call by Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Njongonkulu Ndungane for her to quit.

Region's children at risk

Children account for more than half of the 12.8 million people in Southern Africa threatened by starvation, and related diseases such as measles, cholera and HIV/AIDS.

KwaZulu-Natal HIV compromise may ruin UN deal

KwaZulu-Natal's dream of providing antiretrovirals to HIV patients will be dashed if it doesn't get the Global Fund money it wants.

Wish you were right, says Mbeki's AIDS man

Winstone Zulu, a member of Thabo Mbeki's Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel, was a leading AIDS dissident who believed that his HIV-positive status did not mean he would become sick and die.