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The fact that half the audience was suffering from ‘flu made the debate ‘What’s Bugging You? Ethics and Infectious Disease’ particularly pertinent. They were to learn that they were both victims and vectors, .....read more

HIV testing uptake at three antenatal clinics in Johannesburg was 53% during four months when lay counsellors were unpaid, which was lower than the seven months when payment was provided and a subsequent 12-month period when counsellors were paid...

Current WHO guidelines recommend antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation at CD4 counts ≤350 cells/µL. Increasing this threshold has been proposed, with a primary goal of reducing HIV-1 infectiousness.

To describe the incidence, clinical presentation and the management of nevirapine-associated hepatitis among antiretroviral-naive pregnant women treated with nevirapine-based antiretroviral therapy at a dedicated antenatal antiretroviral clinic...

High fertility intentions amongst HIV-positive women have been reported elsewhere. Less is known about how clinical and HIV treatment characteristics correlate with fertility intentions. We use cross-sectional baseline data from a prospective cohort...

Off Label is the latest in the series called AIDS Review, which addresses major aspects of the South African response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Researchers from the Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute (WRHI) in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the first pathological study to address why HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy die, have learned that the vast majority of deaths are due to TB..