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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 […]

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Europe and Africa double research efforts to tackle several infectious diseases
Cape Town, South Africa — The EU and Africa are today doubling the research efforts to develop new and better medicines for […]

December 1st marks the 27th World AIDS Day. We look at the major AIDS-related announcements from advocacy and care-providing organizations, paying particular attention to policy developments in sub-Saharan Africa, […]

Devin Barrington-Ward says one of the reasons he chose to take Truvada is that he knows more HIV-positive men than negative.

Devin Barrington-Ward, 24, has chosen to take Truvada. “I’ve seen friends get sick, […]

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You might have heard that AIDS is not as deadly in Africa as it once was. Deaths from the disease have declined by a third in sub-Saharan Africa since 2005.

But the virus is actually becoming more prevalent […]