HIV/AIDS
HIV lessons: starting with the young
Thembokuhle Sithole, a primary school teacher from Esikhawini in KwaZulu-Natal, is determined to equip his young pupils with vital knowledge about HIV/Aids before it’s too late.
• HIV-testing drive for South African students
SA to pump billions into health care
The government has set aside over R8-billion from the Health Department's budget of R113-billion towards boosting hospital facilities for the phasing in of South Africa's National Health Insurance Scheme, which is expected to revolutionalise the country's health sector.
SA health care in for a makeover
South Africa's health care system will receive a much-needed boost in 2011, with the government planning to train more doctors and nurses, revitalise the country's nursing colleges, step up HIV/Aids prevention, and push towards finalising the new National Health Insurance scheme.
HIV: students urged to take the test
South Africa has launched "First Things First", an HIV counselling, testing and education campaign targeting more than 30 000 first-year students at 18 universities countrywide.
HIV stabilising, but ‘more must be done’
While South Africa's latest antenatal prevalence survey shows a stabilisation in the country's HIV prevalence rate since 2006, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi wants more to be done to implement the government's plans to combat the epidemic.
Sitting in the chair of African dreams
A spectacular hand-beaded chair is getting South Africans talking about their dreams and expectations for their country, their communities and themselves.
Govt, business to promote HIV testing
The Department of Health will be partnering with Business Unity South Africa to help strengthen the government's HIV Counselling and Testing campaign, says Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.
Rural women inspire HIV researchers
In rural Vulindlela, a town 90 kilometres outside Durban, one in 10 girls is HIV positive by the age of 16; by 24, more than half are infected. For two local scientists, finding effective treatment for a disease that affects mostly women was an urgent priority.
SA centre in Aids gel breakthrough
The HIV/Aids prevention community is abuzz with excitement over news that South African research has developed a vaginal gel - known as a microbicide - that can reduce sexually transmitted HIV infection by as much as 54%.
Major HIV prevention breakthrough
The HIV/Aids prevention community is abuzz with excitement with the news that South African research has developed a vaginal gel – known as a microbicide – that can reduce sexually transmitted HIV infection by as much as 54%.
• HIV vaccine hope for Africans
