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Breaking the HIV bottleneck: Why sub-Saharan Africa must lead the way

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New study shows partial progress in South Africa's HIV response

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Mia Malan & Laura Lopez Gonzalez 31 May 2019

Making the best food choices for HIV and TB

Making the best food choices for HIV and TB

Association for Dietetics in South Africa 9 May 2019

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New ways of thinking on health, arts and humanities are emerging in Africa

Carla Tsampiras & Nolwazi Mkhwanazi 3 May 2019

Popular contraceptive could increase TB risk

Popular contraceptive could increase TB risk

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Cyclone Idai is over - but its health effects will be felt for a long time

Kerrigan McCarthy & Lucille Blumberg 15 Apr 2019

Did the Health Professions Council trade cash for qualifications?

Did the Health Professions Council trade cash for qualifications?

Roxy de Villiers 5 Apr 2019

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Ask Dr Google. The pros and cons of online diagnosis

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Why ending HIV still rests on a working cure - as well as prevention

Linda-Gail Bekker 29 Mar 2019

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A cure for HIV? Feasible but not yet realised

Allison Webel 8 Mar 2019

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Community-wide HIV prevention strategy can reduce new infections

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Why African countries need to give genomic research a major boost

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Yale scientists examine how an immune system protein helps suppress HIV

Yale scientists examine how an immune system protein helps suppress HIV

Ziba Kashef 23 Jan 2019

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Self-testing: a potentially powerful tool for fighting HIV

Joel Msafiri Francis 30 Nov 2018

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Amy Slogrove, Kathleen M Powis & Mary-Ann Davies 29 Nov 2018

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(DUREX)RED donation fights HIV/AIDS through Global Fund

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The WHO recommends testing for HIV every 6 to 12 months. Shutterstock

Overcoming the real - and perceived - barriers to HIV testing

Linda-Gail Bekker 29 Nov 2018

In this 2012 photo, grandmother Janet Kitheka, 63, collects her adopted “granddaughter” Lucy, 13, at the end of the school day in the yard of the Hot Courses Primary School, in the village of Nyumbani which caters to children who lost their parents to HIV, and grandparents who lost their children to HIV in Kenya.

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