Thabo Mbeki should be held accountable for his role in the HIV/Aids pandemic, the Young Communist League of South Africa said on Wednesday.
The South African Medical Association (Sama) on Wednesday endorsed President Jacob Zuma's HIV/Aids strategy.
South Africa announced ambitious new plans on Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women.
President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday announced new measures to expand South Africa's response to HIV/Aids.
Millions die quiet, unnecessary deaths because of polite boardroom financial arithmetic.
Refugees are often denied access to healthcare -- including their legal right to life-saving antiretroviral therapy. Jillo Kadida reports.
The scenario: all South Africans are tested for HIV annually and every person who tests positive is immediately given antiretroviral therapy (ART).
SA has more people living with Aids than any other country, but it also has a new government determined to end the crisis, the UN says.
There are real and present Aids villains out there, not lame-duck former presidents taken to task too late over their denialism.
SA's "gender machinery is in disarray", with it not even being clear who is coordinating the 16 Days of Activism campaign, a group of NGOs say.
Zimbabwe's ailing public health system will receive a $180-million boost to fight HIV/Aids from the Global Fund, it was reported on Wednesday.
Pointing fingers at the administration of former president Thabo Mbeki is not helpful in dealing with SA's Aids problems, Desmond Tutu says.
HIV/Aids has now killed 25-million people around the world but the number of new infections is slowing sharply, the UN said in its annual report.
Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota has described calls for former president Thabo Mbeki to be charged with genocide as irresponsible.
A thermal massage bed, said to cure Aids patients, is under investigation by the Health Ministry, it was reported on Friday.
HIV Aids is not a disease of poverty, but a result of a culture of concurrent sexual relationships.
International comparisons show that the average South African will not live longer than 50 years, the SA Institute of Race Relations said on Thursday.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told hospital chief executives and managers on Thursday to shape up or they will be removed.
The SABC wanted "issues of balance" addressed before agreeing to air a documentary on former president Thabo Mbeki and Aids deaths, it says.
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