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First comes love: After Mandisa and Siya Dukashe married, family pressures mounted for a baby. What followed was a long road to two lovely, HIV-negative girls. (Photo: Oupa Nkosi)

Bringing home baby when you’re HIV positive and bae is not

Sperm washing, assisted insemination and long hospital waits – if you were lucky. But things are changing for the better

Pregnant and HIV negative? The HIV prevention pill might be for you — after talking to your doctor.

Busted: The myths that could be standing between you and the HIV prevention pill

A single daily tablet could slash your risk of HIV infection, could it be for you?

Bill Gates tells the International Aids Conference that we need to reduce HIV infections among teenage girls and women.

#AIDS2016: Bill Gates warns HIV among young Africans could reverse progress

The billionaire philanthropist says we need to focus on curbing infections among teenage girls and young women.

A simple test may assist in lowering a young woman’s risk of getting HIV.

​#AIDS2016: This common germ in your vagina makes it easier to get HIV – study

In the vagina’s ecosystem, mundane bacteria matter more than you think.

Sex work must be legalised for the best interests of South Africa

Sex workers are being denied their basic rights, and their stigmatisation is hampering the country’s fight against HIV, writes Relebohile Montana.

Despite concerns about the drug, banning Depo-Provera without a replacement would lead to more unwanted pregnancies in many countries — and higher rates of maternal mortality.

Tense debate over ethics of trial on link between HIV, contraception

Health experts are at loggerheads over research that raises questions about the possible link between the contraceptive injection and HIV.

Drug users run the risk of HIV transmissions

More harm reduction policies and programmes will help reduce dangers of practices such as sharing dirty needles and ‘flashblooding’.

The research builds on previous trials showing that people who take a small daily doses of antiretroviral drugs can reduce their risk of being infected.

HIV research on monkeys makes breakthrough

A single shot of antiretroviral drugs has protected lab monkeys from HIV for weeks, according to two US trials.

Sex life leaving a bad taste in your mouth?

Poor oral hygiene doesn’t just affect your gums; it can also lead to impotence.

Condoms are handed out in Abidjan

Attempts to avert HIV are off target

The death toll is falling but there is still no hope for an end to the worldwide pandemic.

An Australian scientist has said he discovered how to turn HIV against itself to stop it progressing to Aids.

Light shines at the end of the HIV tunnel

For the first time an Aids vaccine in our lifetime is possible, but scientists need money and support to make it work.

A boy cries while being circumcised at Kouba Hospital in the Algiers. Circumcision is a divisive issue in Europe.

Circumcision issue cuts two ways

American doctors say evidence suggests that circumcision is the kindest cut. But why then is it causing controversy around the world?

Weighing up the odds: Money spent on a ­prophylactic could be at the expense of providing life-saving ARVs.

Clash over HIV drug’s ‘success’

Pressure’s mounting on SA’s Medicines Control Council to register the use of Truvada by the HIV-negative to lower chances of being infected with HIV.

Employment in the month of October increased by an annualised rate of 1% boosted by the informal sector.

Domestic violence a driver of HIV

Health professionals must note the link between women abuse and an increased risk of infection, writes Kate Joyner

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Eroded rights of women with HIV

For most women, being HIV-positive makes them victims of many forms of violence, a new report has found. Aneesa Fazel reports.

Hope for parents with HIV

Only a few clinics in South Africa offer fertility treatment to HIV-positive couples.

After 30 years, war on Aids at ‘moment of truth’

With the war on Aids nearing its 30th anniversary, the United Nations on Thursday declared "a moment of truth" had come for new strategies.

Heedless young fuelling HIV

Heedless young fuelling HIV

Europe’s gay youth still practising unsafe sex in face of campaigns.

Lesotho’s life expectancy cut short by HIV, TB

Medical workers are concerned that the lethal combination of HIV infections and tuberculosis may become the world’s next major health crisis.