As the countdown for the 2012 Shoprite Checkers Women of the Year winners ticks down, a review of last year's winners shows how effectively the prize money has been used to grow communities.
24 May 2012 06:28The HIV infection rate in newborn babies has decreased by more than half in Gauteng, says the provincial Department of Health and Social Development.
4 Apr 2012 08:33The HIV infection rate in newborn babies has decreased by more than half in Gauteng, says the provincial Department of Health and Social Development.
2 Apr 2012 17:00The National Consumer Commission is taking no chances in checking the reliability of a brand of condoms sold by a leading retailer, and plans to verify independently the finding by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) that they were okay.
29 Mar 2012 14:53
It was unclear if government had formed a R1.6bn deal with Swiss pharmaceutical giant Lonza to establish the manufacturing of critical drug components, as the company issued a statement saying that talks were still at an early stage.
13 Feb 2012 12:00NEW DELHI, INDIA: A smartphone app launched today, 21 December 2011, in the Indian capital Delhi aims to fight a rise in sexual assault cases by enabling women to immediately alert friends or family if they feel at risk.
21 Dec 2011 08:21[Gabi Khumalo] More access to female condoms, protection of commercial sex workers and access to HIV information for rural women were some of the requests given to Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe as the country marks World Aids Day.
1 Dec 2011 16:44 
Higher Education and Training Minister Dr Blade Nzimande has called on young people leaving school and those in institutions of higher learning to get tested for HIV.
1 Dec 2011 16:36
[Gabi Khumalo] President Jacob Zuma has launched the new National Strategic Plan (NSP) for HIV and Aids 2012 - 2016, which promises to do much more to tackle TB and issues of violence against women.
1 Dec 2011 16:30[Gabi Khumalo] A Department of Health survey has shown an increase of 0.8% in the HIV prevalence of antenatal women between 2009 and 2010.
1 Dec 2011 10:03 Don't assume, be sure and test for HIV. This is the message being communicated through Lancet Laboratories World AIDS Day campaign which aims to provide consumers with the opportunity to know their status and, at no extra cost, help someone else know their HIV status too.
29 Nov 2011 16:42Community pharmacies play an important role in lifting the burden that life threatening diseases such as HIV has on state healthcare, particularly with the renewed emphasis on wellness practises announced recently by provincial and national government.
29 Nov 2011 16:22
[Eric Gershon] Researchers at Yale University have discovered new chemical compounds that prevent HIV from replicating in human T-cells. These compounds could result in new, highly effective HIV treatments that are 10 to 2000 times more potent than HIV drugs now on the market.
22 Nov 2011 16:38Professor Caroline Tiemessen is attempting to understand why some individuals - referred to as elite controllers - are able to be HIV infected, but successfully suppress virus replication to undetectable levels. This is according to a report published on
allAfrica.com.
14 Nov 2011 13:18
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