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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.
Many women across the world feel unable to refuse sex or request condom use. Empowering them could help bring down HIV rates.
A new centre in South Africa will work to significantly reduce emerging HIV and TB co-infections.
Three new studies conducted in South Africa provide insights into the engine that drives HIV transmission in the country.
The International AIDS Conference is more than just a talk shop. The platform it offers for engagement between governments, scientists and civil society is of undisputable value.
Chikwe Ihekweazu relives his experience from 2000, when the International AIDS Conference was last hosted in South Africa.
Activists, health-care workers and scientists in South Africa were faced with a horrific epidemic but went on a ruthless crusade to turn it around.
The 90-90-90 strategy is an attempt to get the HIV epidemic under control by adopting a ‘test and treat’ approach. This is part of the plan to eliminate AIDS by 2030.
There are good reasons for drawing attention to “the end of AIDS” in Australia. But this needs to be read with caution.
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki remains a puzzle to many of his compatriots. A new book, ‘The Thabo Mbeki I know’, will help to understand him better.
In the the wake of the Orlando massacre, many people directly affected by this homophobic hate crime are prevented from offering help due to homophobic regulations.
Enough tiptoeing around: without ending state discrimination, we have little hope of stopping HIV and AIDS.
When sociologists, driven by their value commitments, go beyond the relative comfort of the classroom and engage with organisations outside the university, they dirty their hands.
The brain function of HIV-positive women who experienced childhood trauma is more compromised than that of women who are only HIV positive.
New guidelines from the World Health Organization mean more people are eligible for antiretrorviral therapy. It’s critical to find ways for people to start treatment without multiple clinic visits.
Mental health problems need to be addressed to control the HIV epidemic, but such treatment is not yet part of the HIV care package in sub-Saharan Africa.
A new animal study has shown injections of antibodies might protect against HIV infection, albeit for only a limited time.
Creating HIV services at primary health-care centres in Nigeria may improve the uptake of antiretrovirals, but it won’t tackle the issue of stigma.
In South Africa, female sex workers go for HIV tests, receive counselling and use condoms – but don’t access antiretroviral treatments. More options are now available and can change this.
Top contributors
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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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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Research Professor, Perinatal HIV Research Unit and President, South African Medical Research Council
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Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Malawi
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Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital and Consultant Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Research Director at The Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Health Systems Researcher, Makerere University
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Behavioural Scientist, Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
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Professor of Global Health and Director, O'Neill Institute, Georgetown University
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate Professor and Head of the Surveillance and Evaluation Program for Public Health at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Anthropology, American University
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Associate Professor, Public Health & Social Policy; Special Advisor Health Research, Office of the Vice-President Research and Innovation, University of Victoria
