HIV/AIDS vaccine trials underway

Trials of an HIV/AIDS vaccine began on human volunteers on Monday in Entebbe, Uganda.

AIDS activists to march on SA parliament

South Africa's AIDS activists are preparing for a march on the Opening of Parliament (today) to call for a national treatment plan to provide anti-AIDS drugs free to all those who need them.

UGANDA: Leading user of antiretrovirals

A total of 10 000 people, or one third of the 30 000 anti-retroviral (ARV) users in sub-Saharan Africa, are in Uganda, the Ministry of Health announced this week. "Uganda has been able to achieve this because it has made a marathon roll-out of Voluntary Counselling and Testing or VCT, which is necessary if drug misuse and eventual resistance is to be avoided," said the Minister of State for Health, Mike Mukula.

"Dramatic effect" of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes

HIV/AIDS prevention programmes have had a dramatic effect on changing risky sexual behaviour, authors of a five-year study in Ethiopia said on Friday.

Redefining masculinity in era of HIV/AIDS

What does it mean to be a man in Southern Africa? How do young men perceive themselves as single men, husbands, fathers and breadwinners? How do these perceptions interact with the HIV/AIDS pandemic in a context of poverty and unemployment?

Living positively with HIV/AIDS drugs

In a move considered a breakthrough for a country with high levels of stigma and discrimination, Batswana using antiretroviral (ARV) drugs have come forward to tell their stories in a series of educational videos released this week.

Starfish Greathearts at the 2003 Hansa Powerade Dusi

Canoeists competing in the 2003 Dusi Marathon in January enthusiastically signed up to become "Starfish Dusi Greathearts". As such, they committed themselves to raise funds from friends, family, colleagues and companies to benefit children orphaned and left vulnerable by HIV/AIDS in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, through which the Dusi annually runs its course.

TAC backs threat of mass action with show of muscle

The "Stand Up For Our Lives" March, the largest-yet mobilisation for the rights of people living with HIV in this country, and which took place on Friday (14-2-03), was led by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). What is the TAC and how has it managed to mobilise such solidarity?

Hospital offers a 'pocket of hope' for those infected with HIV/AIDS

In March free anti-retrovirals will for the first time be offered to patients suffering from HIV/AIDS-related opportunistic diseases at a KwaZulu-Natal hospital.

Gibson Kente stuns SA with HIV revelation

The disclosure by playwright Gibson Kente that he is HIV-positive could mark a turning point for the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa.