AIDS activists cautiously welcome drug price cut

African HIV/AIDS activists have cautiously welcomed GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) announcement that it will halve the price of its anti-AIDS drugs in poor countries, including all of sub-Saharan Africa.

Social grants not reaching orphans of HIV/AIDS

Sithembiso is just one of thousands of South Africa's estimated half-a-million orphans of HIV/AIDS who need help but aren't getting it.

The mining industry cares about workers infected with HIV

The Chief Executive of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa Mr Mzolisi Diliza today announced that the Chamber of Mines is taking a simple message to the HIV/AIDS Summit to be held on 30 April 2003: Lets stop ‘fighting’ each other about HIV/AIDS – Let us turn the war towards the epidemic.

TAC suspends civil disobedience campaign

At a meeting on 25 April 2003 with Deputy President and SANAC Chairperson, Jacob Zuma, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was asked to consider suspending its civil disobedience (Dying for Treatment) campaign, pending a full day meeting with SANAC on Saturday, 17 May 2003, and its outcomes.

First National Bank donates R80 000 to beadwork project

Children watch fascinated as their mothers concentrate on the intricate beading that produces HIV/AIDS ribbons, company logos and even jewellery.

UNICEF lauds White House leadership on HIV/AIDS bill

UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy commended the White House for its leadership in endorsing a $15 billion emergency bill to tackle HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean today. The bill promotes an “ABC? prevention package (Abstinence, Be Faithful, Consistently use Condoms) that sidelines efforts by some to keep condoms out of the final legislation.

HIVAN Fellow, Dr Catherine Campbell, releases "Letting Them Die"

HIVAN Fellow, Dr Catherine Campbell, has released a new book, "Letting Them Die: How HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Often Fail" (Cape Town: Double Storey Books/Juta, April 2003).

Doctors stage HIV/AIDS care protest

Today and tomorrow hundreds of doctors across South Africa will go to work wearing the trademark Treatment Action Campaign T-shirts, which have the words "HIV-positive" splashed across the front in purple, to support the activist group's call for antiretroviral drugs to be provided at state hospitals and clinics.

HIV/AIDS is your business - part one of an eight part series

Treating workers who have HIV/AIDS can save companies money by dramatically reducing productivity losses. But if companies get it wrong, they can increase the cost of HIV/AIDS to the company instead of reducing it.

HIV patients find solace at hospice

Thousands of South Africans with HIV have been thrown out of their homes - or treated as a scourge - by fearful members of their families.