Topic: South Africa
In an Arab world rife with social stigma, government inaction and often limited access to education and medical care, experts warn that an HIV epidemic is on the rise."In the Middle East and North Africa, the HIV epidemic has been on the ...
As people with HIV live longer, South African life insurance providers are offering more policies to tap into a growing market, but for many people the premiums remain prohibitively expensive.HIV life insurance policies have existed for more than a decade in South ...
President Jacob Zuma on Thursday unveiled a plan to halve the number of HIV infections over the next five years, cementing South Africa's turnaround from years of deadly denialism.The five-year plan is the first drafted since the 2008 ouster of president Thabo ...
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa wants to cut new HIV infection rates by at least 50 percent within five years as it seeks to build on recent successes following years of failing to tackle AIDS and increased mortality, President Jacob Zuma ...
The number of pregnant women carrying the HIV virus in South Africa, which has the world's biggest AIDS population, has inched up to 30.2 percent from 29.4 percent last year, health officials said Tuesday.While the number of HIV carriers among pregnant women ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Southern African countries, hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, are likely to be most affected over the next three years as funding from one of the world's biggest donors dries up, a coalition of AIDS activists said Monday.The Global ...
A $1.6-billion (1.2-billion-euro) cut in funding for AIDS treatment could affect millions of people as donors failed to meet commitments to the Global Fund, campaigners said Monday.The Global Fund last week said it would not bankroll new AIDS treatment projects until 2014 ...
In a major setback for AIDS prevention research, a clinical trial of a new vaginal gel supposed to reduce HIV infections has been suspended after studies showed it to be ineffective.Researchers from the Microbicide Trials Network, set up by the US National ...
A South African province on Friday announced it will offer a 50,000 rand ($5,900, 4,400 euros) prize in a lucky draw to encourage people to test for HIV in the world's biggest AIDS population."Persuasion has not worked. We would rather use incentives ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Sub-Saharan African countries that invest in training doctors have ended up losing $2 billion as the expert clinicians leave home to find work in more prosperous developed nations, researchers said on Friday.A study by Canadian scientists found that South ...
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