Africa bears a disproportionate infectious disease burden, with HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria posing ongoing threats ...

Professor Thumbi Ndung'u and his team at the Africa Health Research Institute are pioneering a study that explores innovative treatments for HIV, aiming to reduce reliance on lifelong antiretroviral ...

The number of people living with HIV in South Africa has for the first time reached the eight million mark. Of these, around 6.2 million are on treatment. This is based on new estimates from Tembisa, ...

The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) on Friday, April 5 is set to host an engagement session on the groundbreaking HIV cure trial conducted in Durban, South Africa. This pioneering trial ...

What made scientists especially excited about the findings was that they showed that new HIV infections among the group of people in East and Southern Africa who have the highest chance of getting ...

Johannesburg, South Africa – Last year, Mary* finally had the conversation she had been dreading for more than a decade. Mary has lived with HIV since 2008. But the 36-year-old has also carried ...

Moderna has joined forces with non-profit organisation IAVI on a third phase 1 trial of its candidate HIV vaccine in Africa, where the burden of the virus is still being keenly felt.

In South Africa, which has more people living with HIV than any other country, treatment for people with HIV has been hit hard. Users who share needles are especially at risk of such diseases.

A new HIV cure trial conducted in Durban, South Africa, has raised hope after 20 percent of study participants achieved virus control even after stopping antiretroviral therapy (ART) for more than ...