SA pledges to honour terms of AIDS funding

The millions on offer from the Global Fund for AIDS will be spent on programmes set out in the original national and KwaZulu-Natal submissions for funding.

Mandela requests AIDS meeting with Mbeki

Former president Nelson Mandela has formally requested a meeting with President Thabo Mbeki over the issue of antiretroviral treatment for people living with HIV.

Plans to test health workers slammed

Plans to make HIV testing compulsory for foreign health workers aiming to work in Britain were "discriminatory" and insulting to African nurses, nursing unions said on Tuesday.

I'm no AIDS martyr, says Zackie Achmat

AIDS activist Zackie Achmat is determined to continue his life-threatening protest against the government's AIDS drugs policy, in spite of intense pressure to relent and start taking anti-retroviral (ART) drugs.

Joint statement by concerned stakeholders on the Global Fund allocation

One in four people in KwaZulu-Natal live with HIV/AIDS. It is the worst-affected province in South Africa and one of the worst-affected in the world. Already there is immense suffering and death, especially among poor people, and the public health system in the province is struggling to cope with the burden of this disease. If nothing is done, the situation will become much worse.

A funding bonanza that will save lives

Professor Salim Abdool Karim, one of the world's most respected AIDS scientists, is understandably a very happy man. After years of underfunding and a lack of resources, he can now confidently state that scientists in South Africa are now not only willing, but also able, to undertake cutting edge research on HIV/AIDS.

KZN did try the right channels

The government accused KwaZulu-Natal of ignoring official channels in its bid for a R720-million grant to fight HIV/AIDS, but evidence shows that the province tried to use those channels - in vain.

'We will defy ban on nevirapine'

Parliament's health committee will meet the Medicines Control Council (MCC) within the next month to discuss a possible ban on the AIDS drug nevirapine.

AIDS drug ban will be 'a disaster'

University of KwaZulu-Natal-based AIDS expert Jerry Coovadia said the withdrawal of the anti-retroviral drug Nevirapine would be disastrous for South Africa and especially KwaZulu-Natal, which has the highest incidence of AIDS in the country.

Focus on importation of HIV/AIDS drugs

Pressure is mounting on the Kenyan government to re-amend the Industrial Property Act to allow for the importation of generic anti-retroviral medicines (ARVs) into the country, as parliament prepares to go into recess until October at the end of this week.