The driver of a taxi carrying 36 adult passengers has been arrested in the Eastern Cape.
The fallout among South Africa’s top spies has taken a further twist after claims that the controversial Gupta family was placed under high-level surveillance.
The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has set aside a government decision to award a tender for Chinese-made condoms which are too small and not approved by the WHO.
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A campaign to "Give Aids the Red Card" has been launched in Mozambique to coincide with the All-Africa Games being held in the country.
The HIV counselling and testing campaign had reached over 14.7 million South Africans by the end of June, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini says.
The rate of new HIV infections continues to outpace prevention efforts, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says.
At least 700 people have been treated in the last year alone using a controversial and unregulated radio-magnetic therapy for HIV, spawned by South Africa’s arms deal.
More than 620 Gauteng nurses have been trained to put HIV-positive patients on to antiretrovirals, in order to implement new treatment protocols.
Cape Town police say an Ethiopian has been arrested in Durbanville for possession of contraband sporting clothes valued at R4m.
The Press Freedom Commission says it has broadened its scope of reference to include various forms of regulations for South African media.
All HIV patients with a CD4 count of 350 or less will now get government antiretroviral treatment, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has announced.
Volunteers who took a cocktail of antiretroviral drugs in an HIV prevention trial among gay men had a reduced risk of 92% of being infected, researchers say.
Three new studies have boosted a campaign to get African men circumcised to prevent HIV transmission, with one study reporting a 76% drop in new cases.
Just a few years ago, anyone who talked of a cure for the Aids virus would in all likelihood have met with a sad, ironic smile.
Using HIV treatment drugs to reduce the risk of spreading Aids may be more effective than thought, according to analysis from a landmark trial.
A new drug, rilpivirine, can add powerfully to the combination of medications used to control HIV for first-time patients, researchers have found.
Two new studies have found that daily pills prevented infection with HIV/Aids in heterosexual men and women, bringing new hope for offering a shield against HIV infection.
World leaders have launched a global plan with the goal of ensuring that every baby is born HIV-free by 2015 - and that their HIV mothers live to raise them.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for global action to put an end to Aids by 2020 and relegate the killer disease to the history books.
Eighty-one percent of South African youth equate not telling your sexual partner that you are HIV positive with murder, a survey has revealed.
The cost of drugs used to keep Aids at bay will keep falling because of the huge demand from millions of sufferers desperate for the lifeline, UN experts say.
The Gauteng health department says 1.2m women have participated in the Gauteng HIV testing campaign, compared to 760 000 men.
HIV infections among the world's youth dropped by 12% over the last decade, but fell short of the 25% target set by world leaders, Unicef says.
Home to 22.5m people with HIV, sub-Saharan Africa is bearing the brunt of the 30-year-old Aids pandemic.
A global study which found that the early use of antiretrovirals massively reduces the risk of infecting a sex partner with HIV has been hailed as a "game-changer".
A large study in California has found that cancer may be nearly twice as prevalent among gay men as among straight men.
Opening up government antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to more HIV patients will save the state time and money in the future, the Treatment Action Campaign says.
Researchers say epidemics of HIV are emerging among gay and bisexual men in the Middle East and North Africa, and risky sexual behaviour threatens to spread the Aids virus further.
Women in Africa are about twice as likely to transmit or be infected with HIV if they use hormone-based birth control such as the pill, a study has found.
Scientists have now provided revolutionary tools to roll back HIV but only a major funding boost will determine the outcome, experts say.
Patients taking HIV drugs in Africa can expect to have a near-normal lifespan, a study has found.
A Zimbabwean parliamentarian has called on scientists to develop a chemical to dull men's libido and enable them to have sex once a month to curb the spread of HIV/Aids.
Philippines officials have warned against using geckos to treat Aids and impotence, saying the folkloric practice in parts of Asia may put patients - and the lizards - at risk.
Efforts to cut the risk of women contracting HIV could have an interesting side effect - sexual pleasure.
SA's programme to prevent HIV in babies has achieved a 96.5% success rate in wiping out transmission from infected mothers, the MRC says.
African leaders have called for greater resources to battle Aids, at a summit where UN leader Ban Ki-moon set a target of ending new infections by the end of the decade.
Having an HIV test is not a prerequisite for receiving health services at Gauteng clinics, the provincial health department says.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe is set to attend a UN conference on HIV and Aids in New York, in which member states will recommit to new targets to fight the disease.
A UN-led alliance has urged young people to change behaviours that increase their risk of contracting Aids.
Fifty-one new public clinics have been accredited to distribute antiretrovirals in the North West, in addition to 29 existing sites, the provincial health department says.
The Vatican has invited Aids experts from around the world to a symposium on preventing HIV and caring for people with the virus.
The Gauteng health department says it is dispatching an antiretroviral drug to clinics around Johannesburg that have run low on stock.
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