This is the fourth National Strategic Plan (NSP) that South Africa has adopted to guide its response to HIV, Tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections. Viewed together, the plans set out…
How the Global Fund’s top donors spend their top dollars. Long-term budget requirements for the AIDS response in South Africa are estimated at R35 – R45 billion (approximately $4.5 –…
[caption id="attachment_449" align="alignnone" width="567"] An HIV-positive person stands near an audience of children at the HIV/AIDS candle memorial in Kibera, Africa's largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo by Felix Masi,…
[caption id="attachment_440" align="alignnone" width="567"] TAC members demonstrate outside the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. Photo by Patrick Mdletshe.[/caption] Will local production of active pharmaceutical ingredients offer the health…
[caption id="attachment_442" align="alignnone" width="567"] Photo by Alon Skuy, courtesy of Treatment Action Campaign Archive.[/caption] Nine years of PEPFAR The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was initially launched…
How health is structured Our public health care system is divided into several different levels. Each level has particular responsibilities to ensure that people have access to health care services.…
[caption id="attachment_446" align="alignnone" width="567"] World AIDS Day (2010) in Driefontein in the North West Province. With well over 5,000 people in attendance, community members were able to apply for identity…
[caption id="attachment_446" align="alignnone" width="567"] World AIDS Day (2010) in Driefontein in the North West Province. With well over 5,000 people in attendance, community members were able to apply for identity…
[caption id="attachment_437" align="alignnone" width="567"] Members of the organisation Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS (GAPA), which provides food and day care for children with HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Photo by Omar…
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[caption id="attachment_496" align="alignnone" width="567"] Coins change hands in Khayelitsha township, South Africa. Photo by Laura Van Der Pohl, courtesy of Photoshare.[/caption] In order to control HIV, we need to…
[caption id="attachment_491" align="alignnone" width="567"] In the foothills of the Southern Drakensberg Mountains in KwaZulu-Natal Province, rural residents wait to be seen at a temporary medical station. Although all South Africans…