Diabetes targets would cost more but the impact would be worth it: here’s how
SETTING global health targets, which is often done by multinational organisations, such as the United Nations or World Health Organisation
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HIV/AIDS
Ghana LGBT+ bill would threaten fight on HIV/AIDS, says UNAIDS
NITA BHALLA A proposal to criminalise LGBT+ people in Ghana is “a gross violation” of human rights and could set
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African scientists on the rise
SETH ONYANGO AFRICAN scientists are staking a claim at the world’s scientific high table, generating cutting-edge breakthroughs in the fight
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How COVID-19 measures have affected food safety in East Africa
FOODBORNE diseases are thought to impose a health burden on society comparable to the “big three”: malaria, HIV/AIDs and tuberculosis.
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Ending HIV in children is way off target: where to focus action now
WORLD leaders have recently, under the auspices of the United Nations, renewed their commitment to ending AIDS. The new phase
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HIV 40 years on: four action points to end AIDS as a health threat
ON 5 June 1981 a short report of five cases of pneumocystis pneumonia in young homosexual men in Los Angeles
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Forty years on, AIDS is not over
ASH KOTAK FOURTY years ago, on June 5, 1981, the first cases of what became known as AIDS were reported
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People with HIV are still dying from a treatable, but neglected, disease: all it needs is a plan
THEMBI Ngubane was a young woman who became famous through the American National Public Radio show Thembi’s AIDS Diary: A
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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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Pioneering AIDS researcher and doctor Joseph Sonnabend, 1933-2021
HUGO GREENHALGH PIONEERING AIDS researcher Joseph Sonnabend, one of the first doctors to warn of the emergence of a new
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