Attitudes and laws about homosexuality are not purely a colonial import. Since independence, other factors, including right-wing evangelism, have driven anti-LGBTI attitudes.
Articles on HIV
Displaying 361 - 380 of 434 articles
Homosexuality remains illegal in 38 of 55 African nations. This is concerning from ethical and human rights perspectives. It’s also a serious public health risk.
June 5 2015 marks 34 years since the first reports of AIDS in a medical journal.
Starting HIV treatment early, before immune damage occurs, brings real clinical benefits, a new study has shown.
Novel research in South Africa has found way to test for HIV drug resistance in a cheap and accessible way.
South Africa’s maternal mortality rate rose dramatically after 1998, almost doubling to 302 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2009.
Officials in Indiana would have served the population better if syringe exchanges had been in place before the upsurge in HIV cases began.
A new pill available could enable people living with HIV to conceive children through sex without risking the health of their HIV-negative partner.
Immunotherapy has joined anti-retroviral drug therapy as a means to combat HIV.
Health-care providers need to view the health of young gay men within a broader context of personal health and not solely defined by HIV.
The technology HIV testing has evolved since 1985. And so too have our perceptions about what a positive HIV test means.
Time magazine has named health workers caring for Ebola victims in West Africa as its “Person of the Year 2014” and compared them to “military special forces who volunteered to fight the epidemic when…
The latest report from Public Health England revealed that there were more than 100,000 people living with HIV in the UK, with 6,000 new infections last year. Around a quarter of people are unaware they…
HIV has infected over seventy million people but only one of them has been cured: Timothy Ray Brown. An HIV-positive resident of Berlin, Germany, Brown developed relapsed leukemia in 2006. To treat the…
Some experts worry that the Ebola crisis is diverting attention and resources away from neglected diseases with a substantially larger disease incidence.
Ebola has focused the world’s attention on the challenges of health care in Africa. The continent has 11% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s disease burden. It also has just 1.3% of the global…
Ever since combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) was introduced in 1996, HIV has been transformed from a fatal diagnosis to a chronic and manageable condition for many people. ART made it possible for…
Two years ago, the “beginning of the end” of AIDS was announced. It included the promise of reducing HIV transmission by reducing the amount of infectious virus in the population. This relies on a two-pronged…
It’s twice as common as type 1 diabetes. It kills more Australians than HIV. One in every 100 of us lives with hepatitis C, but the disease receives little attention. Worldwide, around 150 million people…
HIV is one of the deadliest viruses encountered by humans in recent history and will kill 1.5m people this year alone, compare this to Ebola, for example, which has killed less than 5,000 so far, and you…
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor, Public Health Ethics, School of Population Health, UNSW
-
Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
-
Distinguished Professor, Infectious Disease and Oncology Research Institute, Faculty of Heath Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Executive Director Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Chief Scientific Officer, South African Medical Research Council
-
Melbourne Laureate Professor, University of Melbourne; Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
-
Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
-
Doctoral Researcher, School of Public Health and Public Health Technical Advisor, Anova Health Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of Iowa
-
Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town
-
Ezintsha, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Associate Professor, Monash University
-
Research Director at The Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal
-
Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
-
Professor of Gender Studies, Chair in Sex Media and Sex Cultures, Linköping University
-
Scientia Professor of Medicine and Director, Kirby Institute, UNSW