The CDC's potential 'streamlining' of programs to prevent HIV has two Southern California health agencies worried the ...

Recent research co-authored by Professor Linda-Gail Bekker from the University of Cape Town (UCT) showed that withdrawing the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) support in South ...

But turning this crisis into an opportunity is possible. To mitigate the effects of the funding freeze, Bekker said swift ...

Both TB treatment and TB preventive therapy involve taking lots of pills, usually for several months. Researchers are working ...

The study was published in The Lancet medical journal last week ... a researcher at the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre. In a group ...

South African researchers are making significant strides in validating traditional medicines for HIV treatment, highlighting the potential for economic growth and the integration of indigenous ...

Scientists uncover new gut microbes in Africa and say their findings could help make medicines more effective.

An annual injection designed to guard against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has completed an important early safety trial, researchers report in The Lancet medical journal. Lenacapavir stops ...

In December, Pepfar and the Global Fund announced a commitment to fund the rollout of lenacapavir in countries they support, once the medicine ... South Africa, or any other African country, can ...

He Jiankui stands by a controversial research approach that landed him in prison as he aims to tackle Alzheimer’s disease.