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Zimbabwe: Children Crossing Borders in Search of HIV Treatment
HARARE, 25 August 2010 (PlusNews) - A new type of migration is taking place in Zimbabwe. While in the past people crossed the borders into South Africa and Botswana seeking work and fleeing from their repressive circumstances, now a silent migration of HIV-positive children seeking antiretroviral treatment (ART) is taking place.
SOUTH AFRICA: Strike jeopardizes HIV treatment
JOHANNESBURG, 25 August 2010 (PlusNews) - A strike for better wages by South African health workers is putting the lives of HIV-positive people on the line as industrial action disrupts treatment programmes.
News: Africa: Donor Fatigue New Threat to HIV Fight
HARARE 24 August 2010 (allAfrica.com) — An aftershock of the deadly HIV and AIDS tremor whose epicentre was located in sub Saharan Africa way back in the 1990s threatens to reverse all the gains made so far in the fight against the world's most dreaded ailment. The shock is in the form of alarming donor fatigue that is being felt across the sub-region.
South Africa: Nation Becomes a Victim of its ARV Treatment Success
DURBAN, 24 August 2010 (allAfrica.com) — Almost a million South Africans are already on lifelong antiretroviral (ARV) treatment and this number is supposed to triple in the next decade if the South African government keeps to its implementation plan.
SOUTH AFRICA: Communities debate microbicide results
JOHANNESBURG, 23 August 2010 (PlusNews) - The recent release of positive results from a microbicide trial in South Africa have kick-started discussions between scientists, activists and community workers about the quickest and most responsible way of getting a product into women's hands.
SOUTH AFRICA: Nevirapine linked to HIV treatment failure
JOHANNESBURG, 23 August 2010 (PlusNews) - One of the cheapest and most commonly used drugs for treating HIV in Africa - nevirapine - has been associated with an increased risk of treatment failure in a retrospective South African study.
