S Africa probes Aids asylum bids
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South Africa investigates reports that 137 female delegates to an Aids forum in Canada are seeking asylum.
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South Africa has approved a request by Equatorial Guinea to put questions to Mark Thatcher, arrested last month in Cape Town on suspicion of financing a coup plot in the oil-rich country.
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The UN is probing allegations of contracts fraud amounting to $610m involving some peace missions in Africa.
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Ugandan police launch an investigation into allegations that two orphanages are involved in child trafficking.
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The request is from Equatorial Africa over alleged ties to a plot to oust the president. CAPE TOWN -- South Africa is considering a request by Equatorial Guinea to question Mark Thatcher about his alleged
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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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India is taking bids for an independent evaluation of the country&#39;s National AIDS Control Organization to identify ways to improve HIV prevention and treatment in the country, Indian health minister Anbumani Ramadoss announced Thursday.
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Nearly one in every four South African servicemen has contracted HIV/AIDS while the country&#39;s political parties urged the government to increase public spending and education to fight against the pandemic.
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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 announces a five-year plan to try to fight Aids and halve infection rates, on World Aids Day.
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More than a year after the South African government decided to offer low-cost antiretroviral treatment to  everyone with AIDS, only about one out of every 50 AIDS patients who are medically ready for antiretrovirals receives them from the public health system, said researchers.
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India is to appoint private consultants to determine how many of its people are infected with the Aids virus.
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A five-year, $15 billion effort to combat AIDS in Africa and other areas may become a political battleground as it comes up for renewal
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ABECHE, Chad  - The scandal over a French group suspected of trying to smuggle African children to Europe from Chad may harm the image of foreign aid workers seeking to help refugees fleeing violence, U.N. officials said on Monday.
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AIDS-stricken Southern African  nations should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to  fight the disease, the head of the United Nations anti-AIDS  agency said on Tuesday.
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AIDS may be killing elected officials in some Southern African countries faster than they can be replaced, creating a new threat to democracy and governance in the region, a new study said.
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South Africa said on Tuesday it had ordered an inquiry following reports that participants in the clinical trial of a microbicide gel to help prevent HIV infection among women had instead contracted the virus.