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The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/Aids says the crisis is not an isolated supply-chain issue but a ‘systemic failure’ that demands urgent government intervention
AIDS

What researchers learnt from five baby boys in KwaZulu-Natal about an HIV cure

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Medicine gives insight into what an HIV cure could look like during infancy

  • Tian Johnson
10 min read
Zero discrimination is essential to if we are to change the fact that 7.8 million South Africans live with HIV, but 5.8 million people are on ARVs, highlighting a treatment gap
UNITED NATIONS JOINT PROGRAMME ON HIV

Protect everyone’s rights to protect everyone’s health against Aids

Zero discrimination is essential to if we are to change the fact that 7.8 million South Africans live with HIV, but 5.8 million people are on ARVs, highlighting a treatment gap

  • Eva Kiwango
6 min read
The government’s Aids policies sparked protests like the one pictured in 2001 in Cape Town. (Per-Anders Pettersson / Getty Images)
AIDS

World leaders can choose the path that ends Aids

World leaders can choose the path that ends Aids

  • Winnie Byanyima
4 min read
A new study suggests that changes in policies have led to decreased breastfeeding. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
ANTIRETROVIRAL

Policy changes around HIV lead to drop in breastfeeding

A new study suggests that changes in policies have led to decreased breastfeeding

  • Munyaradzi Makoni
3 min read
(Photo by Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)
AIDS

Letter to UNAids: End Aids deaths by 2030

Setting new 90-90-90 targets for CD4 testing, cryptococcal antigen, and TB testing, and treatment, aligned to the WHO AHD package of care would be a positive step towards ending…

  • Open Letter
4 min read