Professor Peter Mugyenyi, Executive Director of the Joint Clinical Research Centre in Uganda, has attacked pharmaceutical companies in the west for deliberately causing the death of Africans living with HIV/AIDS, according to The New Vision.



According to Mugyenyi, western countries deliberately delay to provide life-saving anti-retroviral drugs at an affordable price.



His remarks are in his new book titled Genocide by Denial: How Profiteering from… Continue

Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (SCIA), has said that it would work with the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACAP) to reduce the spread of HIV and AIDS.



The Council announced this at a two-day workshop in Kaduna organised for traditional rulers, Islamic scholars and women NGOs, on the development of HIV and AIDS policies for the Muslim Ummah.



The state governor, Alhaji Namadi Sambo, who declared the workshop open, commended the Council for its… Continue

My name is Phindile Ncongwane and I am a health worker in South Africa, employed at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. I am writing to share my experiences as a person affected by HIV and AIDS.



In 2006, I lost my dearest sister, Sibongile, to AIDS. She was an elder sibling and we were very close. We had a tight connection (or so I thought).



In my struggle to make sense of my sister’s death, I’ve realized the following two things upset me the most. I’m… Continue

Decisions on switching to a second-line series of drugs for HIV/AIDS patients who are failing the first-line regimen are often made on the basis of sophisticated and expensive lab tests.



But a new study shows that survival is only slightly affected if these decisions are based instead on the appearance of clinical symptoms.



Researchers still need to develop less expensive versions of laboratory tests currently used, but lack of test availability… Continue

Most scientists involved in Aids research believe that a vaccine against HIV is further away than ever and some have admitted that effective immunisation against the virus may never be possible, according to an unprecedented poll conducted by The Independent.



A mood of deep pessimism has spread among the international community of Aids scientists after the failure of a trial of a promising vaccine at the end of last year. It just was the latest in a series of… Continue