HIV

Treatment for everyone with HIV: what will it mean?

Patients will benefit and there will be fewer new infections

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Information | 17 May 2016

New, better HIV drugs can save billions of rand

But South Africa needs to be proactive to take advantage of new medicines

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News | 5 May 2016

Masiphumelele’s clinic unable to serve township’s needs

Calls for facility's service and space to be expanded, but officials say this will be difficult

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News | 4 April 2016

TB kills 1.5 million a year - here’s how to stop it

We must increase access to medicines, diagnostics and vaccines

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Opinion | 22 March 2016

Medicine patent system must be fixed

Current system is not developing enough of the drugs we need

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Opinion | 18 March 2016

Antiretrovirals for all sex workers

We are “affirming the right of all South Africans to life, to dignity, to health" - Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa

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Brief | 17 March 2016

Mbeki is wrong about death statistics

AIDS has for many years been by far the largest cause of death

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Information | 14 March 2016

Clearing up two Mbeki misconceptions

There are two misconceptions by Mbeki and people defending him that I wish to debunk.

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Information | 13 March 2016

“No credibility as a researcher” - a letter to News24

A former Media24 journalist criticises the country's biggest online news publication for publishing AIDS denialism

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Opinion | 11 March 2016

Will clinics provide medicines to prevent HIV transmission?

A pill reduces the risk of women getting HIV but there are challenges to making it widely available

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Feature | 9 March 2016

Mbeki confirms he is an AIDS denialist

A virus can't cause a syndrome, he says

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Opinion | 7 March 2016

SA researchers develop tool to detect HIV drug resistance

Paradoxically, it might be more useful in the United States than here

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News | 23 February 2016

Ten things you probably don’t know about HIV in 2016

The HIV world is used to things moving fast, in a way that most medicine just doesn’t.

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Information | 22 February 2016

Detainees go to court over conditions in Pollsmoor

65 people held in a cell meant for 25

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News | 3 February 2016

Mbeki’s reputation is not in tatters because he was aloof

It's because his policies caused hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths

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Opinion | 1 February 2016

Patients turned away from Mfuleni clinic

Mfuleni community clinic turned away some patients on Friday as staff went to an end-of-the-year function.

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News | 15 December 2015