HIV

Large HIV vaccine study planned in SA this year

Scientists are planning a major study of an experimental HIV vaccine in South Africa later this year. The shots are based on the only attempted HIV vaccine ever to show even marginal effectiveness, in Thailand in 2009. The US National Institutes of Health said Wednesday its study in South Africa[…]

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HIV – Donor gives up on rural needy

More than 100 local organisations involved mostly with HIV-prevention, children, gender-based violence and sex workers face a crisis because a major international donor is redirecting its funding from rural areas to major cities. Global Fund, based in Switzerland, which works with organisations to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, donates R1.7[…]

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Gene-editing technique could cure HIV

For the first time since the start of the AIDS epidemic, it appears scientists are on the verge of a cure. Antiretroviral drugs do such a good job of suppressing the AIDS virus and keeping it from reproducing, that levels of HIV are virtually undetectable in infected individuals. But the[…]

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Mbeki: I stand by my Aids statements

In a salvo reminiscent of 2002, Thabo Mbeki yesterday warned people to take antiretroviral drugs with caution and to eat healthily as a way to treat HIV. Between 1998 and 2004, former president Mbeki’s Aids policies, which denied people access to antiretroviral treatment, were shown by Harvard researchers to have[…]

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Let’s talk about sex

The incidence of new HIV infections among young females in South Africa is more than four times higher than that of males. South Africa has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the world with over 400 000 new HIV infections a year. With February earmarked as Reproductive Health Awareness Month, these[…]

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Cambodia medic jailed over mass HIV infections

A Cambodian court has convicted an unlicensed medical practitioner of murder and sentenced him to 25 years in prison for spreading HIV among almost 300 villagers. A spokesman for the court in the northwestern province of Battambang said Yem Chrin, 56, was found guilty on Thursday of torture and cruel[…]

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TAC not facing imminent closure

The Treatment Action Campaign is not facing imminent closure, but will have to make “tough decisions” if it does not get more funding, it said on Tuesday. “We would like to state that despite severe financial challenges, the TAC is not facing imminent closure,” it said in a statement. “However[…]

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SA to host 2016 Aids conference

South Africa’s port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum’s return to Africa after 16 years, organisers said on Friday. Gathering scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers, the biennial conference is the biggest single get-together on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The 20th conference[…]

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Prof Karim gets doctorate

World renowned Kwazulu Natal-based professor Prof. Salim Abdool Karim was awarded with an honorary doctorate in medicine by the University of Cape Town (UCT) on Thursday. Karim was honoured for his ground-breaking research over the last 30 years, in the fight against HIV. He was conferred alongside theoretical physicist Dr[…]

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