Researchers are still figuring out why exactly girls are more susceptible to HIV infection than boys but sex with older men is thought to play a role, together with biological and sociological reasons.
Despite our government spending around R20 billion to fight HIV-Aids each year, we’re seeing about 2 000 women infected per week.
Nolusindiso was raped three times. She received no help. She dropped out of school. She became pregnant in 2013 and found out she was pregnant and HIV positive. She as to walk 8kms to get her treatment.
This figure is significantly lower than that reported by Stats SA and the World Health Organisation, both which put life expectancy at around 60.
As former president Thabo Mbeki fires another epistolary salvo against his critics, journalists and online editors have taken the bait, spreading rumours and misinformation that have their roots in a racist world-view
Could “about 88%” of South Africa’s police force be HIV+, as the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) recently reported? Africa Check inspected the evidence.
A study done by Carreworks show that by the time most young girls have finished Grade 12, about 7-10% of girls were HIV-positive‚ yet most of the boys remained HIV-negative.
Although the trial was small, the drug firm believes it offers a significant step forward.
As a result of South Africa’s broad access treatment programme, life expectancy has leapt up by a decade from 52.1 in 2003 to 62.5 in 2015.
Charlie Sheen has revealed that he is HIV positive. Your first response might be “so what”, but a person with a high profile – who goes on to live a healthy life – can go a long way in helping fight the stigma that still surrounds those who are ill.
The New Age newspaper recently reported that “about 41%” of further education and training (FET) college students in South Africa are HIV positive. Africa Check discovered this statistic is vastly inaccurate.
A major development in the fight against HIV poses quite the dilemma for those looking to boycott Israeli researchers, as this could prevent the research from saving millions of lives.
Internationally acclaimed baritone, Njabulo Madlala, hopes that you will help change the lives of underprivileged South Africans by supporting his concert in September.
The Millennium Development Goal to halt and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and achieve universal access to treatment by 2015 has been exceeded. There is even hope to end the AIDS
epidemic by 2030.
The same country that officially claims to have discovered unicorn remains has also, despite their crumbling economy and outdated technology, developed a cure for three of the world’s deadliest diseases.
The claim has been widely reported in recent weeks, after a statement from the CEO of the South African National Aids Council. But is it true?
Wits professor of sociology David Dickinson has written for us about the research for his recently published book, A Different Kind of AIDS: Folk and Lay Theories in South African Townships.
South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Correctional Services Thabang Makwetla has said that correctional facilities in South Africa are not the “disease-infested”, poorly serviced centres of public perception. Africa Check investigated the claim.
Up from number seven to number three on SA’s list of top killers, this one takes its time and more often than not you don’t even know it’s stalking you.
HIV advocates and researchers admit that many people do not use condoms. Now there are revolutionary new ways of preventing HIV infection including taking a pill day.
In South Africa at least 5,000 people are killed on the country’s roads every year. Or is it closer to 14,000? Or more than those dying of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, as has been claimed?
‘A President in Waiting …’, a new play by Cambridge Creative Master’s student Jan Moran Neil, is set to hit Cape Town theatres this summer
Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande has released a new policy framework, which aims to end racism and promote integration at tertiary institutions.
Releasing its latest mid-year population estimates report, Stats South Africa said the country’s population grew by an estimated 1.58% between July 2013 and July 2014 to just over 54 million in total.
A recent survey has shown more must be done to combat spread of the infection. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that the decline in usage might be because “the standard-issued choice condoms just aren’t cool enough.”