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'Why me?' wonders teenage girl

Mbeki defends beleaguered health minister against critics

TAC won't back off about Manto

Tutu slams SA HIV/Aids efforts

SA faces major ARV resistance

Madiba announces Aids concert

UNICEF Launches $500,000 programme in Zimbabwe to train teachers to provide HIV education

Cabinet slams condom scam

Ex-S.Africa deputy minister accuses former boss of sabotage

South African children infected with HIV in public hospitals

Rural Areas Said to Be in the Shadow of Aids Efforts

Opposition want action on HIV babies 'crisis'

4,800 HIV Patients in Gulu Receive Food Supplements

HIV Threatens Child Survival

Botswana: A winning recipe for PMTCT but few follow it

Aids drugs' flood black market in Zimbabwe (11 September)

Aids drugs - some of them contaminated, diluted or faked - are being sold at flea markets and hairdressing salons in the face of growing shortages in clinics linked to Zimbabwe's economic crisis, says the health ministry.
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Alcohol can speed up Aids progression, according to Kenyan study (30 August)

Kenya may lose the gains it has made against HIV due to rampant alcoholism among the infected, a new research on the impact of alcohol on management of the pandemic indicates. The study, done by the University of Boston, found that heavy consumption of alcohol speeds up the onset of Aids in those infected by HIV. Read the full story…

Live burial claims in Papua New Guinea investigated (28 August)

Police and health workers in Papua New Guinea launched an investigation into reports that Aids victims in the rugged South Pacific nation are being buried alive by their relatives when they presumably become too sick to care for.
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