HIV Treatment in South Africa
- Vitamin Can't Be Touted as HIV Treatment, South African Court Rules (June 16, 2008)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- South Africa Improves HIV Treatment Guidelines for Pregnant Women (January 29, 2008)
From IRIN
- Abused HIV-Positive Child Saved By Loving Parents and HIV Meds (September 26, 2007)
From Associated Press
- S. Africa Says Half Million on HIV Drugs, But Official Warns of Resistance Risk (August 31, 2007)
On Thursday, a top health official said an estimated half million South Africans with HIV have received antiretrovirals (ARVs). Approximately 300,000 are obtaining ARVs through public hospitals and clinics, while it is likely another 200,000 are receiving them through the private sector, Thami Mseleku, Director-General of the Health Department, said at a press conference. About 5.4 million South Africans have HIV -- the highest caseload in the world. Each day, an estimated 900 South Africans die of the disease, and 1,000 become newly infected. Treatment Action Campaign, an AIDS activist group, said a lack of monitoring makes it impossible to know how many are on ARV treatment, and it said the new figures should be treated with caution. .
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Providing the Providers -- Remedying Africa's Shortage of Health Care Workers (June 21, 2007)
International aid donors are finally addressing the dangerous shortage of health care workers in the developing world, according to an editorial by Pooja Kumar, M.D.
In New England Journal of Medicine
- An Unavoidable Tragedy: HIV Will Kill a Million More South Africans by 2010, Study Predicts (June 19, 2007)
In a "best-case" scenario in which HIV treatment is nearly universal by 2010, more than a million South Africans will still die, U.S. researchers say.
From Agence France-Presse
- "African Potatoes": The Anti-Cure? (January 30, 2005)
A diet containing the herb Hypoxis hemerocallidea ("African potato") might actually do more harm than good.
In The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- South Africa Makes AIDS Drugs Available Ahead of Polls (March 30, 2004)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Discounted HIV Monitoring Tests Begin Arriving in South Africa (March 25, 2004)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- "Now I Will Live Longer" (January 23, 2004)
Xolile Maliti recently became the first person to receive free HIV meds through South Africa's new treatment program. But is the program's rollout taking too long?.
In Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg)
- South African Companies Using Managed-Care Plans to Control Health Care Costs in Country With 20% AIDS Prevalence (January 22, 2004)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- South African National Defence Force Launches Clinic for Army Personnel, Families (January 22, 2004)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- South African AIDS Advocate Achmat Begins Antiretroviral Drug Treatment; TAC Rolls Out AIDS Drug Program (September 9, 2003)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- South African Generic Drug Maker Hopes to Offer Generic Antiretroviral Combination Therapy by End of Year (August 21, 2003)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Scientists in Uganda Dismiss South African Claims About Safety, Efficacy of Nevirapine (August 19, 2003)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Team of HIV/AIDS Specialists to Help South Africa Develop National Antiretroviral Drug Plan (August 19, 2003)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- South Africa Faces Obstacles in Implementing New Nationwide Antiretroviral Program (August 15, 2003)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Resource Allocation Main Issue in Roll Out of South African Antiretroviral Drug Program, Opinion Piece Says (August 14, 2003)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- South African Government Calls for Development of National HIV/AIDS Treatment Program by October (August 11, 2003)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- South African Generic Drug Maker to Produce Country's First Generic Antiretroviral Drug (August 7, 2003)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- HIV/AIDS Advocates, Researchers Call for National HIV/AIDS Antiretroviral Policy at Close of South African AIDS Conference (August 6, 2003)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- South Africa: HIV-Infected Activist Abandons Pledge Not to Take AIDS Drugs Until They Are Widely Available (August 5, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- First National South African AIDS Conference Opens Amid Anger Over Government Decisions on Providing HIV Drugs (August 4, 2003)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- South Africa May Ban Use of Nevirapine to Prevent Vertical HIV Transmission (August 1, 2003)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- South African Government Angered by Leaked Report (July 16, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- South Africa: HIV Treatment Adherence as High as Developed World (July 7, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- South Africa: Dorm for HIV-Affected Children Serves as Model (June 24, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- South African Government Pledges to Offer Anti-HIV Drugs Nationwide, but Refuses to Set a Date (June 16, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- South Africa Study Says AIDS Program Is Affordable (May 13, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- South Africa Protestors Decry AIDS Response (April 25, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Ethiopia, South Africa Receive UN Help for Treatment Access (April 16, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- South Africa: Finance Minister Manuel Joins in Antiretroviral Skepticism (March 20, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- International Treatment Preparedness Summit Opens (March 2003)
Zackie Achmat calls for scientific literacy in Cape Town.
In GMHC Treatment Issues, from Gay Men's Health Crisis
- A Letter to South Africa's President (January/February 2003)
By Samaila Garba, a woman living with AIDS in Nigeria.
In GMHC Treatment Issues, from Gay Men's Health Crisis
- Global Treatment Update (January/February 2003)
Roche drops nelfinavir (Viracept) prices, activism activates in South Africa, churches get involved in treatment access, Bush's global AIDS plan gets mixed reviews and the Global Fund makes nice with the U.S.
In GMHC Treatment Issues, from Gay Men's Health Crisis
- South Africa to Train More AIDS-Focused Doctors (November 12, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention