South Africa Aids

South African Women Still Second-Class Citizens

Alex Matthews | Posted 09.10.2009 | World


Alex Matthews

South Africa has a crisis of values in which men are brought up to believe they are entitled to treat women as objects to abuse, hurt, exploit, rape, harass, control and patronize.

South Africa Eliminates Funding For AIDS Vaccine Research

AP | MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 08.20.2009 | World


CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa launched a high-profile trial of an AIDS vaccine created by its own researchers Monday, a proud moment in...

South African School Children Getting High On HIV Drugs

BBC NEWS | Posted 01.08.2009 | World


Anti-retroviral drugs used to treat HIV/Aids are being bought and smoked by teenagers in South Africa to get high. Reports suggest that the drugs a...

Harvard Study: 365,000 Died Due To South Africa's Misguided AIDS Policies

The New York Times | Celia W. Dugger | Posted 12.27.2008 | World


JOHANNESBURG -- A new study by Harvard researchers estimates that the South African government would have prevented the premature deaths of 365,000 pe...