According to a survey, 85% of managers reported that their clinics faced staffing shortages, though only one in five blamed these on the US President’s Emergency Plan For Aids…
Today, SA boasts the world’s largest HIV treatment programme, but 3.2-million people who need ARVs still aren’t on them. Here’s how to fix that.
Our Laura Lopez Gonzalez takes you inside SA’s national HIV and TB plan in just two minutes.
Health department admits HIV testing kits ran low, but says kits were reshuffled between facilities and provinces to avoid stock-outs.
One in two people living with HIV still aren’t on treatment, could DIY testing be the solution?
It starts with a swab but does it end with a diagnosis? Why the trickiest part of DIY HIV testing happens after the test.
The World Health Organisation hopes take-home tests will increase the number of the people who know their HIV status
The population assessments of the epidemic in sub-Sahara yields information of benefit to patients and to each nation’s plan of action
Technology has cut diagnosis waiting times, getting infants on to treatment sooner.
People in rural Nigeria are afraid of being isolated due to their HIV status and don’t access treatment.
Gender imbalances in intimate relationships make it difficult for women to decide when, if at all, to have children.
Although 65% of South Africans reportedly have been tested for HIV at least once, annual testing figures are much lower.
Despite the stereotypes, there is a pressing need for men to play more of a role in HIV support.
Government facilities are trumping their larnier colleagues in providing HIV services.
KwaZulu-Natal traffic officers have allegedly stopped drivers at the Mooi River Toll plaza on the N3 and forced them to take HIV tests.
As a result of an NGO in the Eastern Cape using incentives to encourage people to check their status, HIV testing has tripled in four villages.
Many HIV survivors did not expect to live to become elderly, and their retirement years are bleak and lonely, writes Sarah Bosely.
The lack of privacy at schools means that HIV tests on schoolchildren there must not proceed without proper planning and protection of human rights.
Children’s rights experts and activists have welcomed government proposals offer HIV tests in schools.
President Jacob Zuma revealed his HIV status on Sunday as he launched a scaled-up counselling and testing campaign aimed at stemming the pandemic.
