HIV testing | Bizcommunity

News

Healthcare

HIV among older South Africans in rural areas: big study shows there’s a problem that’s being neglected

Jen Manne-Goehler and Francesc Xavier Gomez-Olive Casas 5 Mar 2024

What to expect from a medical check-up

Healthcare

What to expect from a medical check-up

Issued by Intercare 5 Feb 2024

Source: Supplied. Pfizer and Unjani team with Sister Happiness.

Property

Pfizer and Unjani open Daggafontein clinic

5 Sep 2023

Source: Supplied. Seithati Molefi, deputy chief-of-party at Right to Care.

Healthcare

Let's talk about sex that is safe and satisfying

Seithati Molefi 16 Aug 2023

Healthcare

#HIVToday: Western Cape launches U=U campaign

Katja Hamilton 2 Aug 2023

Healthcare

#HIVToday: Urgent action needed for high incidence among MSM

Hans Croukamp 20 Jul 2023

Source: Supplied. Hans Croukamp, bioLytical Laboratories' chief operating officer.

Healthcare

#HIVToday: The company that's empowering South African youth with rapid HIV self testing

Katja Hamilton 21 Jun 2023

Healthcare

Covid-19 threatens gains made in HIV/Aids fight

Katja Hamilton 1 Dec 2021

Source: ©The Global Fund. A march through Agogo town in Ghana to educate citizens on malaria

Healthcare

Covid-19's adverse impact on HIV, TB and malaria programmes

8 Sep 2021

Healthcare

Healthcare in South Africa: how inequity is contributing to inefficiency

Russell Rensburg 7 Jul 2021

Healthcare worker, Boitsholo Mfolo, inside the digital x-ray truck at one of Africa Health Research Institute’s mobile screening camps in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Samora Chapman/ Africa Health Research Institute

Healthcare

Study shows a huge burden of undiagnosed disease in a rural South African district

Emily B Wong 28 Jun 2021

False Bay TVET College rolls out Peer-to-Peer Educators Programme with great success

Education

False Bay TVET College rolls out Peer-to-Peer Educators Programme with great success

Issued by False Bay College 18 Jun 2021

Ending HIV in children is way off target: where to focus action now

Healthcare

Ending HIV in children is way off target: where to focus action now

Kaymarlin Govender & Linda-Gail Bekker 14 Jun 2021

HIV 40 years on: four action points to end Aids as a health threat

Healthcare

HIV 40 years on: four action points to end Aids as a health threat

Gilles van Cutsem 10 Jun 2021

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Energy & Mining

Tackling HIV in the mining industry - new guidance from DME

Nivaani Moodley, Kalene Watson & Shane Johnson 13 May 2021

Women who had a secondary or higher level of education were more likely to test for HIV than women who had no formal education. Shutterstock

Healthcare

African countries differ widely in prenatal HIV testing: why it matters

Anthony Idowu Ajayi 13 Jan 2021

About 70% of South Africans with HIV are on antiretroviral treatment.

Healthcare

South Africa has the best HIV policies, report finds

James Stent 3 Dec 2020

People relying on HIV prevention, care and treatment services have become even more vulnerable because of COVID-19. Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images

Healthcare

Why it's important to keep diagnosing and treating HIV during the Covid-19 pandemic

Kathryn L Hopkins & Glenda Gray 30 Nov 2020

Businesses all over the country closed their doors for good. GettyImages

Healthcare

Lockdown didn't work in South Africa: why it shouldn't happen again

Benjamin T H Smart & Alex Broadbent 15 Oct 2020

A healthcare worker in a protective suit is seen at a quarantine and isolation centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Healthcare

How Covid-19 threatens efforts to contain HIV/Aids in South Africa

Nesri Padayatchi & Kogie Naidoo 21 Jul 2020

Winnie Byanyima, executive director, UNAIDS. Source: UNAIDS

Healthcare

Covid-19 and HIV: When two viruses collide

Nicci Botha 7 May 2020

How tech can influence the 'new norm'

ICT

How tech can influence the 'new norm'

6 May 2020

Malawi solar energy project to add 46MW to local power supply

Energy & Mining

Malawi solar energy project to add 46MW to local power supply

27 Dec 2019

Syringe and cooked heroin. TM_SALE/Shutterstock

Healthcare

Women using heroin in Kenya: why it's important to intervene early in life

Catherine Mwangi & John Gachohi 18 Oct 2019

Image: World Health Organisation

Healthcare

Malawi races towards global HIV targets

WATIPASO MZUNGU 14 Aug 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Healthcare

New study shows partial progress in South Africa's HIV response

13 Jun 2019

Marketing & Media

Ask Afrika's Da Vinci Awards reveal how effective market research marries art and science

Issued by Ask Afrika 22 Nov 2018

Photo: Kim Cloete

Healthcare

Community-wide HIV prevention strategy can reduce new infections

Kim Cloete 5 Mar 2019

Photo: libcom.org

Healthcare

MDR-TB treatment achievable in post-conflict DRC

15 Feb 2019

PrEP pills. Bowonpat Sakaew/Shutterstock

Healthcare

Stop blaming PrEP for the rise in STIs - the picture is more complex than that

Oli Stevens & Charles Witzel 11 Dec 2018

The theme for World Aids Day is “know your status”. EPA

Healthcare

Self-testing: a potentially powerful tool for fighting HIV

Joel Msafiri Francis 30 Nov 2018

The WHO recommends testing for HIV every 6 to 12 months. Shutterstock

Healthcare

Overcoming the real - and perceived - barriers to HIV testing

Linda-Gail Bekker 29 Nov 2018

MMI Holdings Limited won Ask Afrika's inaugural Da Vinci Awards for the innovative use of research about presenteeism to impact positively on workplace productivity.

Marketing & Media

Ask Afrika's Da Vinci Awards 2018 winners announced

22 Nov 2018

False positive results have raised questions about home pregnancy tests. flickr/Rebecca

Healthcare

DIY medical tests: why some are safer than others

Glenda Mary Davison 30 Oct 2018

The WHO recommends HIV viral load testing to monitor people on ARVs. Shutterstock

Healthcare

How innovation can help end the Aids epidemic by 2030

Glenda Gray 23 Oct 2018

Response to HIV needs to change

Healthcare

Response to HIV needs to change

23 Jul 2018

#Mandela100: Mobile HIV clinics hit the road

Healthcare

#Mandela100: Mobile HIV clinics hit the road

13 Jul 2018

Hermina Manjekana Dyeshana

Healthcare

HIV programmes need to bring blessers onboard

16 Feb 2018

We found ways to shorten the turnaround time for diagnosing babies with HIV

Healthcare

We found ways to shorten the turnaround time for diagnosing babies with HIV

Jónas Oddur Jónasson 23 Jan 2018

Antiretroviral treatment prevents the virus from multiplying and prolongs the lives of HIV positive people. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

Healthcare

Kenya's HIV progress report: good progress, but also big gaps

Griffins Manguro 3 Jan 2018

Urvashi Ramjee, head of claims management at Old Mutual Group Assurance

Finance

#WorldAIDSDay2017: We can't afford to become complacent

1 Dec 2017

Mike Gerhardt via

Logistics & Transport

Campaign set to make taxi industry healthier

24 Nov 2017

Photo: PRI/Stephane de Sakutin

Healthcare

KZN kicks off chronic care programme for HIV patients

9 Oct 2017

Zambia makes HIV testing compulsory

Healthcare

Zambia makes HIV testing compulsory

21 Aug 2017

Partnership to boost HIV treatment

Healthcare

Partnership to boost HIV treatment

5 Jul 2017

How-to guide on community-based HIV programmes launched

Healthcare

How-to guide on community-based HIV programmes launched

26 Jun 2017

Top ten shortlist for The Venture

Entrepreneurship

Top ten shortlist for The Venture

23 Jan 2017

Marketing & Media

Lesotho: How mobile technologies are saving thousands

9 Dec 2016