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Access to healthcare

Motsoaledi refutes claims South Africa faces drug shortages

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Mail & Guardian
28 May 2015
Tuberculosis & HIV

Dust, TB and HIV: the ugly face of mining in South Africa

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The Guardian
26 May 2015
Epidemiology & behaviour

Africa's health centre at the frontline of HIV research

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The Guardian
26 May 2015
Drug-resistant TB

First all-oral XDR-TB drug regimen trial launches in South Africa

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Science Speaks
15 May 2015
Women

Condom use higher in young HIV-positive women with gender-equal views

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Medical News Today
5 May 2015
Contraception

Tense debate over ethics of trial on link between HIV, contraception

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Mail & Guardian
1 May 2015
TB treatment

High-dose rifampicin may shorten time to TB clearance

News
13 April 2015
PrEP

Women in PrEP trial feared they would have to leave study if they reported low adherence

News
10 April 2015
Hepatitis C treatment

Abstracts Have Been Posted: International Liver Congress™ 2015 of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)

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HCV New Drugs Research
9 April 2015
Human rights

S.Africa HIV-positive women forced to sterilise: rights groups

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Yahoo News
20 March 2015
PrEP

Partners launch phase 2 safety study of a long-acting injectable to prevent HIV

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PATH
6 March 2015
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Treatment cascades and viral load surveys show how African countries can maximise prevention benefits of HIV treatment

News
27 February 2015
TB treatment

CROI 2015: Trial to evaluate the use of health navigators to link HIV/TB patients to care and treatment fails to show positive results

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Science Speaks
26 February 2015
Drug-resistant TB

XDR-TB in South Africa is largely spread person-to-person, not by failure of drug treatment

News
26 February 2015
Vaginal rings & topical PrEP

Disappointing result for tenofovir-gel microbicide shows that young women still lack HIV prevention methods they can use

News
25 February 2015
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

7-country study shows triple-drug combination superior for preventing infant HIV infection

News
25 February 2015
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Breastfeeding mothers often undiagnosed in sub-Saharan Africa

News
25 February 2015
The search for an HIV prevention vaccine

NIH-sponsored HIV vaccine trial launches in South Africa

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Eurekalert Medicine & Health
19 February 2015
TB diagnosis

South Africa: Pledge to turn tide in the war on TB

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Times Live
17 February 2015
Organ transplants

Patients with HIV can safely receive kidneys from deceased HIV-positive donors, with good five-year survival rates

News
16 February 2015
Vaginal rings & topical PrEP

VOICE trial: Microbicide gel may have stopped two out of three HIV infections – in the women who used it

News
9 February 2015
Bad science & bogus treatments

African American people’s AIDS conspiracy beliefs best understood in terms of social anxiety and distrust, not ignorance

News
29 January 2015
New & experimental hepatitis C treatment

Gilead Expands Hepatitis C Generic Licensing Agreements to Include Investigational Pan-Genotypic Agent

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Gilead press release
27 January 2015
Bad science & bogus treatments

Why scientific AIDS explanations struggle in townships

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Africa Check
26 January 2015