Having more than one sexual relationship at the same time is driving the spread of HIV in small landlocked Lesotho. The health sector has long suspected this, but a new report by the National AIDS Commission (NAC), in partnership with

Wavering international support for HIV/AIDS efforts is resulting in funding shortfalls that could wipe out a decade of progress in rolling out AIDS treatment, the international medical and humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has warned.

The government's AIDS treatment programme may have begun to put the brakes on SA's rising death rate, a senior official of the Department of Health told Parliament yesterday.

People living with HIV in Mauritania are voicing their concerns about the suspension of HIV/AIDS funding by the World Bank and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. They feel powerless in the face of the decisions, of

South Africa's first bio-bank, a cold storage facility where samples from HIV clinical trials and other diseases can be stored for years to support future medical research, was launched in Johannesburg, recently.

There is greater frankness today about development policy failures in Africa. It was reflected in President Barack Obama's speech in Accra, Ghana on July 11 when he stated: "Development depends on good governance. That is the ingredient that has been

The 2008 Botswana AIDS Impact Survey III reveals that the productive age group of 15-49 has been hit hardest by HIV/AIDS. The survey indicates that the age group accounts for about half of the 20,254 HIV/AIDS-related deaths in Botswana in

National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA), has said that it requires $7.5 billion to effectively fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the country in the next five years.

Private health practitioners have asked the health ministry to investigate traditional healers and pastors over what they called misleading the public by claiming that they can cure diseases, including HIV/AIDS.

SOME 17 community organisations helping orphans and vulnerable children have received sh3.3b in grants from the Uganda AIDS Commission Civil Society Fund.

Swaziland not only has the world's highest HIV prevalence rate, it now also has the highest tuberculosis (TB) rate, but health officials warn that not enough is being done to integrate TB and HIV services.

Botswana President Ian Khama is scheduled to leave today to the United States to meet President Barack Obama in Washington DC.

THE timing and site of President Jacob Zuma 's landmark speech on HIV/AIDS last week were just too neat to be coincidental.

The introduction of a medical instrument that is said to check the CD4 count in HIV positive people and avail results in about 20 minutes by a South African medical company has raised the question whether a speedy determination of

The Vice President John Dramani Mahama has expressed anger against the National Media Commission for failing to take action against some newspapers who have stigmatized public figures infected with HIV/AIDS.He called on stakeholders in the media to be circumspect in

We all too often look at the question of abandoned children as an imported model; a phenomenon that is not only unusual in our known mores, but rather something exotic and, sometimes, an issue for academic discussion.

Tanzania is lagging behind other EAC countries in rolling out treatment for HIV/Aids, according to a report released by the World Health Organisation, Unicef and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids).

None of all villagers voluntarily tested for their HIV ad AIDS status at Rusaba village in Kasulu district, Kigoma region, has neither been found to be suffering from the dreaded disease nor to be infected by the deadly virus.

TWENTY-Seven years in the fight against HIV, only 15% of the estimated 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda know their status. This is only 4% of all Ugandans.

A 22-year-old ban on people infected with HIV entering the US was officially lifted on 2 November, with the new rules taking effect in 60 days. AIDS activists have hailed the move as a major coup in the fight against