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Engen continues Driver Wellness campaign in Harrismith

After the launch of the Engen Driver Wellness campaign in the Eastern Cape in October 2011, Engen - in partnership with Trucking Wellness, the Department of Roads and Transport and the Department of Health - continued the wellness drive when they visited the Engen Highway Junction in Harrismith, Free State earlier this month. 29 May 2012 06:56

Reviewing charity winners' year

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 06:28

China mulling lifting ban on visitors with HIV

China is considering overturning the ban that prohibits HIV-positive foreigners from entering the country, an official said here Friday. 15 Mar 2010 07:06

Aids - an ongoing emergency in which lives will continue to cost money

There was a bit of a party atmosphere in London last night, 9 Match 2010, as HIV/Aids experts and campaigners arrived for today's "emergency meeting" - why did the department for international development call it that? - to look at progress towards universal access to HIV/Aids treatment and prevention. 10 Mar 2010 14:37

South Africa: A timeline of HIV/AIDS activism

JOHANNESBURG: In a new book, "Fighting for our Lives" the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), an HIV/AIDS lobby group, looks back on more than a decade of activism. IRIN/PlusNews presents a timeline of 12 years of highlights as the group translated action into wider access to HIV treatment: 5 Oct 2011 15:44

HIV reservoir identified

Researchers have discovered a 'reservoir' that allows HIV to remain infectious despite treatment. 20 May 2008 06:11

HIV infection rate in babies drops in Gauteng

The 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 08:33

Unilever to halve CO2 impact

Unilever has announced plans to halve the environmental footprint of its products by 2020, to help 1 billion people improve their health and well-being and to source all of its agricultural raw materials sustainably. 16 Nov 2010 13:17

Mother-baby HIV box aims to help halt transmission

It's no great medical breakthrough, just a simple colour-coded box packed with HIV drugs and pictures, but its backers Unicef hope it may help finally end transmission of the often deadly syndrome to babies. 11 Nov 2010 07:35

Community AIDS testing drive was a success

More than 9000 people took their future in their hands and now know their HIV status, thanks to Standard Bank and New Start. 26 May 2010 11:52

HIV evolving rapidly to evade human immune system

HIV can rapidly adapt to counter human genes that control the immune system, making vaccine development particularly difficult. 26 Feb 2009 08:36

Over 760 000 tested for HIV at New Start centres

Reputed to be South Africa's largest NGO HIV Counselling and Testing network, New Start has continued to make significant strides in the country's HCT efforts, with more than 760 000 having received HCT services at its centres around South Africa since the programme was launched in 2004. 20 Oct 2011 09:10

Survey shows decline in condom use among South African youth

Condom use involving sex with a non-married, non-cohabiting partner among South African youth between the ages of 16-24 years in the country's three largest cities declined between 2006 and 2010, a survey by non-profit organisation Society for Family Health (SFH) has shown. 15 Sep 2011 10:22

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