HIV & AIDS

A fresh setback for efforts to cure HIV infection

Researchers are reporting another disappointment for efforts to cure infection with the AIDS virus. Six patients given blood-cell transplants similar to one that cured a man known as "the Berlin patient" have failed, and ...

Health

S.Africa pregnancy deaths 'unacceptably' high: Amnesty

Rights watchdog Amnesty International said Thursday that Africa's most developed country, South Africa, still has "unacceptably" high numbers of women dying from largely avoidable deaths during pregnancy.

HIV & AIDS

Could there be an end in sight for AIDS?

South Africa is the epicentre of the HIV and AIDS epidemic with a staggering 6.4 million HIV infected citizens. In 1990 the WHO reported just 386 cases in South Africa. Over the next 15 years, despite warnings from scientists ...

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