HIV/AIDS in the News
AIDS-orphan explosion coming ’unless state acts now’ Print E-mail
February 27, 2007

Unicef The number of South African children who have lost at least one parent to AIDS could “explode” to more than 5-million by 2015 unless the government makes a serious effort to curb the pandemic, a senior officer of the United Nations Children’s Fund, Juliana Lindsey, said yesterday.

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Killer TB claims first Cape victim Print E-mail
February 26, 2007
The deadly drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis has claimed its first life in the Western Cape and five new sufferers have been diagnosed. - IOL
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GAMBIA: UN rep expelled after comment on president’s AIDS cure Print E-mail
February 23, 2007
Banjul - The government of The Gambia gave the most senior United Nations official in the country 48 hours to leave the country starting Friday, following remarks she made criticising Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s widely-publicised cure for HIV/AIDS.
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Holford makes 'mindboggling' AIDS claim Print E-mail
February 21, 2007
Popular British nutritionist Patrick Holford, currently on tour in South Africa, has caused a storm by claiming that Vitamin C is more effective in treating AIDS than the antiretroviral drug AZT.
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IAVI chief denies media reports on AIDS vaccines Print E-mail
February 19, 2007
Senior Vice-President of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Dr Wayne Koff, has denied media reports that scientific research organizations such as his are using citizens of developing countries as ‘guinea pigs’ to test vaccines that have failed elsewhere.
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