The South Gauteng High Court this week ruled in favour of the SA HIV Clinicians Society in its legal battle with a doctor who promoted a product marketed as Dr Hugh’s Dermo Blue Pre-sex Protection Gel, which claimed to prevent HIV infection.
By Marlise Richter[1], Thuli Khoza[2] and Katlego Rasebitse[3] Sex Work and the ‘National Strategic Plan on HIV, STIs and TB 2017-2022’ - time to be brave! No HIV plan or…
By Sasha Stevenson- South Africa’s new National Strategic Plan (NSP) on HIV, TB and STIs will be launched on March 24.
By Marcus Low and Ntsiki Mpulo – Aircraft have been used effectively to provide emergency medical services and to transport medical specialists and other supports services to deep rural and underserved areas in South Africa since 1960.
Press Release By Medecins Sans Frontieres Seattle/Rustenburg - New analysis of data detailing the extent of sexual violence in the Rustenburg area indicates that one in five HIV infections (approximately…
By Marcus Low – The Conference for Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was held in Seattle this week. Click to read about some of the presentations and findings.
Last year we published an article responding to the so-called “draft zero” of South Africa’s new National Strategic Plan for HIV, TB and STIs. We have now received an updated…
By Nomatter Ndebele – It was business as usual at the International Aids conference in Durban in July 2016. The South African Minister of Health was about to address a plenary session when two young girls took to the stage.
By Ntsiki Mpulo – Nombulelo Sojina* cradles her baby close to her chest in a kangaroo mothering-style of skin-to-skin
contact. The child’s tiny head is barely visible under the blanket in which she is swaddled.
By Vuyokazi Gonyela, SECTION27 A key ingredient to ensuring our response to the AIDS and TB epidemics is effective, is having a workable plan. To that end, consultants and experts…
By Treatment Action Campaign The Treatment Action Campaign has shared the following stories with Spotlight from their provincial operations in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and the Free State. Elsewhere in this…
By Marcus Low – Medical research findings are often sensationalised and overstated in the mainstream media. We debunk three cases of HIV-related misreporting that caught our eye in recent months.