Durban project gives hope to AIDS patients

Prince Cyril Zulu's Chest Clinic in Durban's Warwick Avenue is offering combined TB and AIDS treatment for the first time.

Government vows to lead national HIV/AIDS battle

Although the government has shown a change of attitude towards HIV/AIDS treatment, it must now act, the Treatment Action Committee (TAC) has urged.

Teenagers convene anti-HIV/AIDS workshop

An Ethiopian living with HIV/AIDS helped launch the country€™s first-ever teenage forum aimed at tackling the disease on Thursday. Beniam Tesfaye told of how he had been rejected by his family and forced to leave home after learning he was HIV-positive.

In turning the tide against HIV/AIDS, education is the key

With more than 40 million people worldwide now estimated to be infected with the HIV/AIDS virus, UN and World Bank officials warned today that education plans to get 115 million boys and girls into primary school by 2015 needed to be intensified if the world was to have any hope of blunting the spread of the epidemic.

Ex-hostage Terry Waite helps HIV/AIDS infected kids

They might not have known his history, but the mothers dancing in Groote Schuur's paediatric HIV/AIDS clinic knew he was helping them to keep their babies alive.

Stephen Lewis on 'Next Wave of HIV/AIDS'

"I'm no optimist about the virus. But I simply don't believe, on the basis of personal observation, that we have to face Armageddon. In fact it enrages me the way in which we pile despair upon catastrophe, over and over again, rendering everyone paralysed. You don't have to be some pathetic bleeding heart to see the potential strength in these societies at the grass roots, and know that if we could galvanise the governments, indigenous and external, and equip civil society, and address capacity and infrastructure with external resources, then we could defeat this pandemic. It is not beyond our competence."

"Imisebenzi yezandla 2" - the NSA Training Arts Programme

On show until the end of October at the NSA's Park Gallery is a showcase of the NSA's Training Arts Programme, which is divided into two components: a creative and therapeutic programme for children, and an intensive skills development programme for adults.

Huge HIV/AIDS grant gives new hope to South African families

The biggest-yet grant for the treatment of South Africans with HIV/AIDS, worth R230 million, is expected to offer new hope to whole communities.

Global Fund seeks proposals with cheaper drugs

In a move designed to let the Global Fund's money go further, the fund will soon require countries applying for grants to buy the lowest price anti-HIV/AIDS drugs, whether they are patented or generic.

Bring HIV/AIDS out into the open, Madiba urges

Former president Nelson Mandela has urged South Africa's traditional leaders to help remove the stigma around HIV/AIDS.