HIV/Aids News

Intensify Aids fight: Motsoaledi

The fight against HIV/Aids needs to be intensified, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Friday.

HIV+ can now join the army

Cabinet approved the revised policy on the health classification and selective deployment of stable HIV positive SANDF members during its regular meeting on Wednesday.

Obama ends travel ban on HIV+

President Barack Obama ended a 22-year-old policy barring people with HIV/Aids from entering the United States.

1 in 20 rapists convicted in SA

For every 100 cases of child rape in South Africa, only four rapists are convicted and imprisoned.

ARV programme may be extended

The health ministry is doing cost studies on extending its antiretroviral therapy programme to HIV carriers with a higher CD4 count, deputy director general Kamy Chetty said.

Zuma: more work needed on Aids

President Jacob Zuma on Thursday called for a change of behaviour and a renewed onslaught against HIV/Aids.

Large foreskins up Aids risk

Men with larger foreskins are more likely to become infected with the Aids virus, researchers said in a finding that helps explain why circumcision can protect men.

SA doc wins HIV/TB research award

A South African doctor has won the Royal Society Award for HIV and TB co-infection research, the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre announced.

Sperm transmits HIV

New research suggests that sperm, not just semen, can transmit the virus that causes AIDS to immune cells in the body and, in fact, sperm may play a major role in transmission.

1 in 3 with Aids don't know it

Almost one in three people infected with the virus that causes Aids do not know they have the disease, increasing the risk of infection, the European Commission warned.