TOP STORY ARV bungle killed 330 000 19/11/2008 22:33 More than 330 000 lives were lost to HIV/Aids between 2000 and 2005 in SA because an ARV treatment programme was not implemented, a new study reveals. Hogan: Find new Aids strategies Hogan: Step up Aids fight QUOTES Move cursor over copy to stop scrolling. To start scrolling, move cursor out of grey block.

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Free State gets R9.5m for ARVs 12/11/2008 22:15 The Free State has received R9.5m to address its shortage of antiretroviral medication. The shortage was due to budget constraints. 510 000 in SA on ARVs Don't stop Aids funding - UN 12/11/2008 20:54 Millions of people will die from Aids if major donors battling the global financial crisis cut funding even for six months, the UN's Aids agency has warned. Red Cross facing funding cut TAC: Vaccine prices a killer 11/11/2008 19:24 Thousands of lives could be saved if prices for the vaccine against cervical cancer - which can cost more than R2 000 - were reduced, the TAC says. $2.75bn to fight Aids, TB, malaria 11/11/2008 09:16 The multilateral Global Fund says it has approved $2.75bn in fresh grants over two years to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria. Zim returns $7.3m to aid group Circumcision 'not preventing HIV' 04/11/2008 12:01 Circumcised men in South Africa are currently as likely to be HIV-positive as uncircumcised, according to a study in the latest edition of the SA Medical Journal. Circumcision HIV benefit divided Circumcision drive launched 'Circumcision to control Aids' HIV vaccine may have raised risk 04/11/2008 09:28 Trials of a once-promising experimental HIV vaccine were cut short because the drug may have increased the likelihood of HIV infection rather than preventing it. Less hope for Aids vaccine Aids vaccine 'within 4 years' US firms present new HIV drugs 26/10/2008 21:08 The big pharmaceutical companies are building new treatment cocktails for HIV-positive patients. Hogan: Find new Aids strategies HIV/Aids impact 'dramatic' 'Medicine, politics don't mix' Hogan: Find new Aids strategies 21/10/2008 11:10 South Africa's new health minister has urged Red Cross societies across the continent to find fresh strategies to battle Aids. Hogan: Step up Aids fight Aids: Hogan signals new tactic Less hope for Aids vaccine 14/10/2008 19:18 Scientists at an international Aids conference say the global economic turmoil is likely to take its toll on research funding. HIV does cause Aids: Hogan DA shows confidence in Hogan Aids: Hogan signals new tactic 13/10/2008 22:15 Health Minister Barbara Hogan has renewed global efforts to find an Aids vaccine, signalling a sharp change from her controversial predecessor Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. Cosatu backs Hogan's plan No 'quick fixes' for Hogan Aids vaccine 'within 4 years' 06/10/2008 21:41 Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier, who discovered the virus that causes Aids, has predicted that a vaccine for the pandemic will be found within four years. Woman 'could beat Aids virus' HIV vaccine 'years off' 1 in 5 drug users may have HIV 24/09/2008 12:00 At least 16 million people around the world inject illegal drugs, and nearly one in five of them may have the Aids virus, according to an estimate. HIV study: Whites, Indians wary 18/09/2008 14:31 A major survey to test South African attitudes to HIV and Aids has run into resistance from Indian and white communities, field workers say. Health dept 'manipulated' survey Aids stigma 'needs more debate' HIV/Aids impact 'dramatic' Aids campaign in Germiston 04/09/2008 16:08 Government officials and celebrities will take part in voluntary HIV counselling and testing at the Germiston Civic Centre, the Ekurhuleni municipality says. Aids stigma 'needs more debate' Woman 'could beat Aids virus' SA shaking image as Aids pariah Aids stigma 'needs more debate' 03/09/2008 22:36 HIV/Aids testing and treatment of the disease need more debate and a more sophisticated understanding, a seminar at the Institute of Security Studies has heard. HIV/Aids impact 'dramatic' 'End of Aids nowhere in sight' 510 000 in SA on ARVs NY has high HIV infection rate 28/08/2008 12:47 New data shows New York City residents are contracting the virus that causes Aids at three times the national rate. US warned of Aids apathy US approves $50bn to fight Aids HIV+ dancer sent back to SA HIV/Aids impact 'dramatic' 26/08/2008 16:01 The financial impact of HIV/Aids on the proposed National Social Security Fund will be dramatic, a conference has heard. Manto: HIV, XDR-TB dropping Circumcision drive launched Woman 'could beat Aids virus' Circumcision drive launched 13/08/2008 14:46 Ugandan authorities have launched a mass circumcision drive with the hope that it will reduce HIV/Aids rates in the east African country. Benefits of circumcision... 'Circumcision to control Aids' Aids 'hits' Uganda soldiers more Woman 'could beat Aids virus' 13/08/2008 11:15 A woman who has never shown symptoms of infection with the Aids virus may hold the secret to defeating the virus, US researchers say. Drug company recalls Aids meds US warned of Aids apathy HIV vaccine 'years off'

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