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When AIDS first hit the headlines in the 1980s, it was touted as a major killer. There were widespread expectations of populations being devastated and certain, mostly African, nations being driven into […]

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Angola may spend less than half the money it did in 2013 to fight HIV next year as declining oil prices reduce revenue and donors scale […]

Angola may spend less than half the money it did in 2013 to fight HIV next year as declining oil prices reduce revenue and donors scale back funding to Africa’s second-largest producer of the commodity.

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Psychosocial support should be a key element of health interventions for caregivers of children in HIV-affected communities, particularly for women who take on the majority of care-giving […]

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Tuesday, December 09, 2014

THE fact that such an assertion has to be made in 2014 is deflating. It is more so for those of us who recognise that racism is […]

Vice.com have this week exposed the horrific practice of ‘dry sex’.

Unfortunately common in Africa and parts of Indonesia, dry sex involves reducing the moisture inside a woman’s vagina by […]

While Ebola has attracted much of the world’s attention recently, a severe HIV epidemic rages on around the world and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular. Globally, more than 34 million people are infected with […]

HIV/AIDS is in danger of falling down the list of priorities confronting world leaders. Photo: Flickr

Sixteen years on from the first World AIDS Day in 1998, this year the global diplomatic response to […]

Washington: By targeting hot zones, areas where the risk of HIV infection is much higher than the national average, Africa could prevent up to 40 percent more infections than using conventional strategy, says a […]

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA—More than 30 years into the HIV/AIDS pandemic that has claimed an estimated 35 million lives, a preventive vaccine has remained elusive. The only HIV-vaccine clinical trial that has shown […]

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – HIV was the third leading cause of natural deaths in South Africa in 2013, up three places from the previous year, and the second […]

Black Voice News, News Report, Corey Arvin, Posted: Dec 03, 2014

Image: HIV/AIDS activists (R to L) Kismet Evans, Pastor Harry Bratton, Kevin Powell and Nosente Uhuti, MSW discuss their work around HIV/AIDS […]

The tipoff late one night wasn’t unexpected. Since the crime of “aggravated homosexuality” had come into force in the Gambia in October, Theresa had been living in fear. Then a friend who worked for the country’s […]

The United States finds itself in a strange position this World AIDS Day. It is the only country where a once-daily pill to prevent HIV, a combination of emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate […]

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The EU and Africa are today doubling the research efforts to develop new and better medicines for poverty-related diseases affecting sub-Saharan Africa such as AIDS, tuberculosis, […]

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Those of us who are old enough to remember when an unknown virus took root in the United States in the 1980s and spread at a rate so alarming that few believed that it could be quelled know […]

DAKAR (Reuters) – Gambia’s foreign minister said the West African country would sever all dialogue with the European Union and rejected what he said were attempts by the bloc to use its aid budget to force […]

South Africa likes to put itself on the psychiatrist’s couch. It is tough on itself and relentlessly self-critical, and there is no shying away from the fact that, 20 years after the fall of apartheid, and a year […]

Regulatory challenges could delay new, game-changing tools for fighting HIV/AIDS in women, writes Linda Nordling. One of the most challenging aspects of fighting Sub-Saharan Africa’s devastating HIV epidemic has […]

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Just a decade ago, South Africa was a grim place for AIDS sufferers – and worse for pregnant women, who had no access to drugs that would prevent them from giving the life-threatening virus to […]