S. Africa Refocuses AIDS Program
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 10 -- South Africa's government has scaled back the influence of its minister for AIDS policy, pilloried for questioning the effectiveness of antiretroviral drug treatments and promoting beetroot, garlic and African potatoes as ways to fight AIDS.
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Presentation by Mary M. Kanya, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Swaziland to the United States of America, at the Fifth Annual African Women&#39;s and Children&#39;s Health Symposium: The Feminization of HIV/Aids on Thursday, November 11, 2004, at the University of
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The number of South Africans carrying the virus that causes AIDS rose in 2003 but the rate of infection especially among teenagers was stabilizing, the government said in a report released Thursday.
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African, especially southern African, nations must link tuberculosis testing and treatment with HIV prevention programs if they are to win the AIDS battle, a top World Health Organisation official said on Thursday.
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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - African leaders will lobby the  Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for more money  Wednesday to solve a cash crunch facing its work, seen as vital  for the continent's health, officials said.
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South Africa and other African nations hard hit by AIDS should consider a mass campaign to circumcise males to help stem the spread of the epidemic, researchers at a major AIDS conference in South Africa said.
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TUGELA FERRY, South Africa  - In a country where AIDS kills 900 people each day, full hospitals and beleaguered doctors are nothing new.
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South Africa has unveiled plans to halve the number of people being infected with the AIDS virus within five years by persuading youngsters to delay the start of their sex lives.
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Malaria is fueling the spread of AIDS in Africa by boosting the HIV in people's bodies for weeks at a time, says a study that pins down the deadly interplay between the dual scourges.
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A host of traditional ceremonies and practices are creating AIDS transmission routes unique to Africa, researchers now agree.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - The number of South  Africans carrying the virus that causes AIDS rose in 2003 but  the rate of infection especially among teenagers was  stabilizing, the government said in a report released Thursday.
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Poor immigration control on South Africa&#39;s borders is believed to have contributed to the rapid spread of HIV/Aids in the country.
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Polio eradication efforts get back on track in African nation after hostility to treatment reignited disease.
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When Nelson Mandela speaks, South  Africa usually listens. But his message on AIDS still has  trouble getting through.
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As an HIV conference opens, a study shows Aids deaths may be undermining southern Africa's democracy.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 19 -- Five years after President Bush vowed to "turn the tide against AIDS" in Africa, he is traveling across a continent where the government's $15 billion investment has extended the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and eased the sense of certain doom once experienced by...
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South Africa, burdened with one of the world's major HIV/AIDS epidemics, unveiled plans on Thursday for its biggest AIDS vaccine trial.