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The HIV epidemic is far from over and it's not time to disengage, says International Aids Society President Linda-Gail Bekker.
In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa men who have sex with men encounter stigma and prejudice when accessing health services.
The placenta could hold the answers to why HIV positive women report higher rates of premature deliveries.
South Africa's data rollout of its pre-exposure prophylaxis shows that there is a relatively slow, but increasing, uptake. However, more needs to be done to target young women.
Bill Gates, who has been identified as the world's most significant donor in the fight against AIDS, shares his thoughts on the pandemic with Africa's most prominent HIV/AIDS academics.
Effectively decentralising HIV and AIDS treatment services helps to improve universal health care. But in Nigeria this approach comes with many challenges.
The focus of the 2016 International AIDS Conference has on access to necessary antiretrovirals, equity and making sure no-one is left behind. But there is a funding gap that needs to be addressed.
Current epidemiological and financial trends suggest there's a major risk of a substantial shortfall in the funds required to sustain life-saving antiretroviral programmes.
The closure of several mines in South Africa and production cuts could have a detrimental impact on the health of miners who rely on in-house HIV and TB treatment programmes.
Although men make up two-thirds of HIV-related deaths, there are not enough services geared towards helping them.
With nearly one-fifth of the globe's HIV positive population, South Africa has the largest anti-retroviral program in the world. But HIV prevention still presents a big challenge for the country.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor and Director: Research at the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute I, University of the Witwatersrand
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Deputy Executive Director, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of Implementation Science, Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, University of Cape Town
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Director: Health Programmes in Special Populations, Aurum Institute
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Professor of Health Economics and Policy and Pharmaco-economics/pharmaco-epidemiology in the Departments of Health Administration & Management and Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria
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Principal investigator, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Professor, University of Jos
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Former Head of the school of Public Health, Makerere University
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Lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine, University of Nigeria
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Honorary doctorate, Addis Ababa University
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Honorary Research Associate, Public Health Medicine, University of Cape Town
