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SA business efforts ‘not enough' |
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November 05, 2007 |
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New infection in school leavers is the hottest part of the HIV fire, and requires more than businesses' current offerings of help, writes David Harrison.
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Design of effective HIV prevention trials the first hurdle |
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October 19, 2007 |
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Johannesburg - We've long known how to protect ourselves from HIV, but the options are limited and not available to everyone: women who are powerless to refuse sex or insist on condoms, and can only trust that their partner will be faithful, pay the heaviest price. In sub-Saharan Africa, those between the ages of 15 and 24 are four times more likely to become infected than men of the same age.
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A winning recipe for PMTCT but few follow it |
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September 17, 2007 |
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Gaborone/Johannesburg - A success story, at last: Botswana has lowered the rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV to less than four percent, coming close to developed countries that have almost eliminated paediatric AIDS.
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Vaccine trial volunteers contributing to AIDS fight |
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September 10, 2007 |
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Johannesburg - Although scientists hope that a vaccine will eventually offer the best protection against HIV infection, the complex biology of the virus has posed constant challenges and even a partially effective vaccine is still some years away.
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Microbicide trials - what's in it for participants? |
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September 05, 2007 |
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Johannesburg - Why would a woman volunteer to use a product that may or may not protect her from HIV infection, undergo a lengthy screening process and then commit to regular clinic visits for up to two years?
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Child migrants seek a better life in South Africa |
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September 04, 2007 |
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Musina - He is only a teenager, but he is already a seasoned border jumper. Dressed in a torn t-shirt and blue work trousers, Robert, 16, (not his real name) told IRIN/PlusNews he had crossed the border from Zimbabwe four times since he first decided to come to South Africa in January this year.
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Falling HIV rates tell complex story |
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August 02, 2007 |
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Johannesburg - When it comes to sub-Saharan Africa's devastating AIDS crisis, there is an understandable tendency to latch onto any scrap of good news.
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Taking stock of the AIDS response |
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June 26, 2007 |
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Kigali - When some of the world's largest donors to the global AIDS response organise a conference for "implementers", there is none of the chaos and rush of larger AIDS gatherings, or any of the free goods and gimmicks hawked by large pharmaceutical companies: no conference bags; no protests; no glittering opening ceremonies - it was all business last week when conference delegates met in Kigali, Rwanda, at the 2007 HIV Implementers' Meeting.
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Road show spreads the word about HIV in Mozambique |
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May 09, 2007 |
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Chimoio (Mozambique) - When the HIV/AIDS information truck shows up in a village in Mozambique's Manica Province, bordering Zimbabwe in the west of the country, dozens of children gather round in anticipation.
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TB: This disease does not discriminate |
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May 02, 2007 |
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One of the many persistent myths about TB is that it is a disease that only strikes poor people in overcrowded, unhygienic conditions. The reality is no one is immune, writes Ufrieda Ho in Business Day.
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