Professor Francois Venter refuses to pull his punches, and he has publicly excoriated both the President and the health ...

Each life lost to HIV is a life too many. Sub-Saharan Africa, home to 65% of the people living with HIV globally, has been the hardest hit by the HIV epidemic.

Francois Venter, a big rock climber, once drank tequila with the PhD-holding virologist rockstar Dexter Holland of The ...

HIV is surging among adults over 50 in sub-Saharan Africa, yet prevention and treatment campaigns still focus mainly on the young. New research reveals older adults face comparable or higher infection ...

South Africa’s HIV failures cost more than 300,000 lives. Now this painful past is helping in Covid-19 fight.

The number of people in sub-Saharan Africa becoming newly infected with HIV has plummeted from 2.1 million in 1993 to 640,000 within 30 years — a 70 percent drop.

Host Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Teguest Guerma, the first woman to lead the organization, about what Africa needs to stabilize its HIV pandemic. Health. Finding Africa's Solutions To HIV/AIDS.

South Africa has more people with HIV than any other country in the world. Roughly 5.5 million of its 53 million citizens are infected with the virus.

African researchers are working to cure HIV, but US aid cuts are in the way. Dozens of trials on HIV ground to a halt in February after US President Donald Trump abruptly pulled crucial funding.

HIV prevention injections have been registered for use in South Africa, but their high price and limited supply means that for the next few years, while awaiting more affordable generics, very few ...

South African Nozuko Majola walks with her children at her Umzimkhulu home Feb. 11, 2025, is one of millions of patients in South Africa affected by President Donald Trump's global foreign aid ...