AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs

[allAfrica] Inequality doesn't just make pandemics worse; it helps create the conditions for them to spread, persist and return

[This Day] United States Centre for Disease Control (US-CDC) said Nigeria had attained measurable progress in the fight against the spread of the HIV virus.

[Nile Post] Africa must take charge of HIV cure research or risk repeating past delays in accessing lifesaving medical innovations, the head of the Africa HIV Cure Consortium, Albert Machinda, has warned.

[spotlight] Dr Hermann Reuter did pioneering work treating HIV in the early 2000s in Cape Town and in the rural Eastern Cape. Today, his focus is substance abuse, which he believes is the country's biggest health issue after HIV. Sue Segar spent time with him to learn about his work in the Garden Route city of George.

[Health-e] Decades of progress in the fight against HIV are at risk as funding cuts trigger global disruptions to health systems, leaving vulnerable communities with fewer services and placing the goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 increasingly out of reach.