North West province says it's ready for HIV/AIDS drug rollout

Most major hospitals in North West - one of the country's poorest provinces - are ready to provide anti-HIV/AIDS drugs, the provincial health department has announced.

TAC sets up treatment project

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) plans to provide anti-AIDS drugs to 1 000 people by the end of next year and has asked members of the public to help fund them.

Health gains at WHO regional committee meeting

A five-day regional health meeting ended on Friday in Johannesburg, South Africa, with African health ministers pledging to give greater attention to women's health and scale up their HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (TB) programmes.

Government releases long awaited HIV/AIDS figures

The number of HIV-positive people in South Africa increased by 12 percent last year, but the spread of the epidemic may be slowing down, according to a long-awaited report released by the government on Wednesday.

National HIV and Syphilis antenatal sero-prevalence survey in SA 2002

HIV/AIDS continues to be one of the biggest challenges faced by South Africa today, alongside poverty, joblessness and other social ills that the government is trying hard to eradicate. In 2001, it was estimated that 4,7 million South Africans were living with HIV/AIDS, of whom 189 000 were babies. However, all of us remain affected. The challenges of preventing new infections, providing treatment to the infected and care to those who are in need of our compassion remain. The past few months have highlighted the intrinsic link between HIV and poverty as we know while breadwinners and other family members become affected, families have to increasingly strive with limited resources to provide medical care whilst at the same time compromising their access to food, shelter and clothing.

Scientic Meeting on the empirical evidence for the demographic and socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS - Report

‘A lot of projections, but little data’, is a common complaint amongst HIV/AIDS researchers and policy makers in Africa. One response was the ‘Scientific Meeting on Empirical Evidence for the Demographic and Socio-Economic Impacts of HIV/AIDS’.

Declining price of HIV/AIDS drugs a saving grace

South Africa's proposed programme to treat HIV/AIDS patients could cost R2-billion less a year than anticipated.

The MRC Stepping Stones Study: HIV prevention research comes to Umtata

The Medical Research Council (MRC) is undertaking an exciting new project of HIV prevention in the Umtata area in the Eastern Cape education young men and women on HIV.

UNAIDS and International Cricket Council join forces to fight HIV/AIDS

For the first time in cricket, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has joined forces with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to take up the fight against HIV/AIDS in cricket playing countries, some of which are hardest hit by the epidemic.

September 2003 Public Health HIV/AIDS Journal Club

“Access to treatment and other controversial issues in HIV preventive vaccine trials? was the theme of the September 2003 Public Health HIV/AIDS Journal Club presentation given by Ms Catherine Slack at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Ms Slack is the Co-ordinator of the HIV/AIDS Vaccine Ethics Group (HAVEG) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg.