Aids hits South African profits
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The effect of Aids has started to hit South African firms&#39; profits, a survey suggests, with mining and manufacturing the worst affected.
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HIV and AIDS are expected to kill 16 million farmworkers in southern Africa by 2010, with severe implications for agricultural production and food security.
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Anti-retroviral drugs are expected to drop from CFA 15,000 per month to CFA 3,000 in October. The Minister of Public Health, Urbain Olanguena Awono, last Friday faced the press within the framework of government communication policy.
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Malaria may be helping spread the AIDS virus across Africa, the continent hardest hit by the incurable disease, scientists said on Thursday.
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Johannesburg, AIDS has killed 1.7 million people in South Africa, including two children of the country&#39;s Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, reports Xinhua.
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South Africa is on course to meet its target of halving new Aids infections by 2011, the deputy president says.
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Car manufacturers with plants in South Africa, including BMW, Toyota and VW, have seen a surge in sales during 2004.
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African health workers aren&#39;t just being lured away by better salaries in rich countries. They are fleeing squalid and unsafe workplaces and staggering workloads.
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A rapid increase in HIV/Aids cases in South Africa could be linked to a fall in the unemployment rate as infected people withdrew from the labour force, the SA Reserve Bank said yesterday.
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The spread of Aids is slowing down in some parts of Africa, including Rwanda, a new report suggests.
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The spread of HIV and AIDS across Africa is fueling the rise of another deadly disease that many thought was on the decline: tuberculosis.
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THE number of people infected with HIV rises daily in SA, the graveyards fill, and still South Africans do little to change their behaviour, say a range of experts .
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The Bush administration's global AIDS plan has helped put at least 25,000 people on antiretroviral therapy since it began disbursing money in February to organizations and governments in 15 targeted countries.
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South Africa is worried that soaring private credit levels are fuelling inflation in Africa's largest economy.
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AIDS has been spreading so quickly in fast-growing countries like China and India that it could threaten the world&#39;s economy. Today is World AIDS Day, and nations around the globe
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Improving women&#39;s rights could  boost the battle against AIDS in southern African countries,  where women are often forced into risky sex by male partners or  economic desperation, a new report said on Friday.
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With almost 25 million Africans  infected, 2.8 million new infections last year and 2.1 million  deaths, the statistics are as grim as ever as Africa readies  for World AIDS Day on December 1.