OPINION: Forty years of AIDS – Justice and equality remain key to quelling a still-potent epidemic
EDWIN CAMERON TODAY, marks World AIDS Day. The past four decades have yielded enormous medical and scientific progress – but death and
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COVID-19 disruption causing many deaths from TB, AIDS in poorest countries, fund says
EMMA FARGE HUNDREDS of thousands of people will die of tuberculosis left untreated because of disruption to healthcare systems in
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‘AIDS Patient Zero was not African’
HUGO GREENHALGH AS World Health Organization scientists comb the Chinese city of Wuhan for the first cases of the coronavirus,
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‘A shot can end the stigma’: African women pin hopes on anti-HIV jab
NITA BHALLA KENYAN sex worker Silvia does not much like the large, oblong-shaped blue pill she takes with her porridge
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Battles won – and lost – against AIDS hold valuable lessons for managing COVID-19
WORLD AIDS Day this year finds us still deep amid another pandemic – COVID-19. LINDA-GAIL BEKKER, Professor of medicine and
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Millions of people are on treatment for HIV: why are so many still dying?
TWENTY years ago treatment for HIV was a rare luxury in South Africa. Exorbitant costs and President Thabo Mbeki’s government’s
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COVID-19, big breakthroughs and missed targets
THIS year saw the first ever AIDS conference to be held entirely online. The 23rd International AIDS Conference, the largest
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