| GLOBAL: Is AIDS still an emergency? |
 JOHANNESBURG, 18 July 2008 (PlusNews) - The rate of new HIV infections, which has fuelled the global HIV/AIDS epidemic since the 1980s, has peaked throughout the world and is now declining.
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| SOUTH AFRICA: WANTED - 4,000 doctors |
 JOHANNESBURG, 14 July 2008 (PlusNews) - With more South African doctors now working abroad than in the country's ailing public health sector, the government needs to start aggressively recruiting health workers from other countries, according to a non-profit recruitment organisation.
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| SOUTH AFRICA: Drug-resistant TB demands new approaches |
 DURBAN, 3 July 2008 (PlusNews) - The increasing number of South Africans contracting drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) demands a radically different approach than the current policy of isolating patients in specialised facilities for long periods. This was the message of several presentations at the first national TB conference, held in Durban this week.
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| SOUTH AFRICA: Is there a better way to say "opportunistic infection"? |
 CAPE TOWN, 2 July 2008 (PlusNews) - After more than a quarter of a century of the AIDS pandemic, there is an extensive lexicon of jargon associated with HIV infection, but this has not made it any easier for doctors to communicate with their patients.
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| AFRICA: Mind your language - a short guide to HIV/AIDS slang |
 JOHANNESBURG, 18 June 2008 (PlusNews) - HIV has hit our lives, our families, our economies; it also shapes the way we talk. IRIN/PlusNews looks at how the virus and its impact translates into everyday speech from the streets of Lagos to the townships of Johannesburg, and finds that despite the billions of dollars spent on positive communication strategies, the word on the street remains decidedly negative.
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| UGANDA: Routine HIV testing boosts uptake |
 KAMPALA, 11 June 2008 (PlusNews) - Routinely counselling and testing patients for HIV during regular clinic visits is proving effective in increasing testing numbers in several Ugandan districts.
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| SOUTHERN AFRICA: Understanding infidelity |
 CAPE TOWN, 5 June 2008 (PlusNews) - "Multiple, concurrent partnerships" has become the latest catchphrase in the HIV/AIDS lexicon. It refers to the practice of having more than one sexual partner at the same time, which experts say is a key driver of Southern Africa's devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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| SOUTH AFRICA: Government urged to raise treatment standards |
 JOHANNESBURG, 6 May 2008 (PlusNews) - HIV/AIDS treatment guidelines for South Africa's public health sector are out of sync not only with those of many other countries in the region, but also with the latest research on how to most effectively treat people living with HIV.
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