Our energies should be focused on solving our health problems, not defending their existence
There are a number of cases in the past decade where Africans have managed to push the conversation beyond liberal reforms as a political goal or did not spent all their energies…
Activists litigated to force government to give HIV-positive people antiretrovirals. Mia Malan talks to Mark Heywood about the political consequences
The country’s political commitment to the fight against HIV cannot be judged solely by the accomplishments of a few government departments.
South African health minister calls AIDS denialism an ‘unlucky’ moment for a country that has since become a leader in HIV treatment, prevention.
The International Aids Conference returns after 16 years to a very different South Africa, but the battle against HIV is not yet over.
About 35 000 babies could have been born without HIV had the president listened to the boy.
Not 27 questions, as some other figures of authority face, but a mere 15 for the former president.
The ex-president will be judged harshly for his unrepentant stance over an estimated 300 000 HIV-related deaths, the activist organisation says.
The nation’s healthcare system reflects the actions of the ministers responsible for it over the years.
South Africa is expected to make a dramatic turnaround in Aids due to a change in government policies, a UNAids official has said.
Has Helen Zille crossed a line? She’s called for men who refuse to use condoms to be charged with attempted murder. We track the latest Twitter storm.
The ANC may be belatedly castigating Thabo Mbeki for his Aids denial, but the failure of the past decade is more systemic than one man’s error.
Vitamin entreprenur Matthias Rath has dropped a million-pound libel claim against the Guardian over his activities.
Former president Nelson Mandela on Sunday proposed a radical challenge to South Africa’s Aids policy.
