As South Africa marks Human Rights Day and the 20th anniversary of its constitution it’s a good time to reflect on the problems it faces in making constitutional rights a reality.
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Besides a reminder of a dark period in South Africa’s history, Human Rights Day also celebrates the country’s unique, highly acclaimed constitution which guarantees human dignity and equal rights.
We have an awful lot in common with the viruses that infect us.
Researchers are learning how HIV hides from the immune system to develop a new generation of vaccines for seemingly unrelated diseases, like the flu.
AIDS and HIV are still major health threats, fueled by poverty and discrimination as much as by the virus responsible for the infection.
When it comes to sexual health, public information has tended to focus on the young. Time for a change.
The stories of HIV positive women in Tanzania often go unheard outside the communities in which they live.
Ignoring those at ‘high risk’ of HIV in order to sustain the idea of the ‘good’ gay man will only perpetuate the virus.
The annual surveillance report of sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses in Australia has found notifications of sexually transmissible infections are on the rise in Australia.
HIV diagnosis is devastating for patients and their families. But the infection is no longer a death sentence, and should not be prosecuted as such say experts.
When people migrate they can end up worse off when it comes to getting access to health care. Analysing migration trends can help drive local public health policy towards the correct targets.
Two musicals set in working class mining communities – one in the UK and the other in South Africa – have diametrically opposed messages: one of hope; the other, despair.
Studies have suggested that women using a particular kind of injectable contraceptive are more susceptible to HIV infection. Research in mice offers new insights.
Efficacy is estimated to be as high as 99% in men who have sex with men who take Truvada daily.
Many women across the world feel unable to refuse sex or request condom use. Empowering them could help bring down HIV rates.
Curing HIV – or at least achieving long-term remission – is possible, under the right circumstances.
Three new studies conducted in South Africa provide insights into the engine that drives HIV transmission in the country.
Worldwide, around 30 million people enter and leave prison each year. Of these people, around 4.5 million have hepatitis C, almost 1 million have HIV and 1.5 million have hepatitis B infections.
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.
Principais colaboradores
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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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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Research Professor, Perinatal HIV Research Unit and President, South African Medical Research Council
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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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Senior lecturer, public health ethics, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Scientia Professor of Medicine and Director, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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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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Associate Professor and Head of the Surveillance and Evaluation Program for Public Health at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Doctoral Researcher, School of Public Health and Public Health Technical Advisor, Anova Health Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Gender Studies, Chair in Sex Media and Sex Cultures, Linköping University
