South Africa has the world’s largest HIV treatment programme, with over 5. 5 million people receiving antiretrovirals (ARVs).

South Africa has made progress in expanding the number of people accessing treatment for HIV, resulting in a 66 percent decrease in AIDS-related deaths since 2010. New HIV infections have also ...

Thembi Ngubane's AIDS audio diary provides a highly personal and intimate look into a year in the life of a young South African woman who is living with AIDS. She is one of about 5 million people ...

The devastation of HIV and AIDS in Africa has affected many more than just those stricken with the disease. Special correspondent Tom Hagler has this story of the grandmothers and orphans of ...

In 2003 2.3 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa died of AIDS and 3.1 million more were infected with HIV, bringing the total number of HIV infections to 25.4 million. Though AIDS is a worldwide ...

According to the most recent data released by UNAIDS, 36.9 million people globally were living with HIV in 2014, withh 70 % of them living in sub-Saharan Africa. Two million new infections were ...

South Africa has been ground zero in the HIV/AIDS tragedy. In 2011, about 5.6 million people were HIV positive, about 12 percent of South Africa’s population. According to the Economist, the HIV ...

The trust fund would apply not just to Africa, but also to the rest of the underdeveloped world. AIDS experts worry that HIV is also spreading rapidly in heavily populated India and elsewhere in Asia.

Progress in the battle against AIDS is widely divergent in different African countries, so much so that to talk about "AIDS in Africa" as one epidemic needing a single approach has become an ...

The HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa compounds and is compounded by the economic, social, and political problems of the continent, says Kwaku Danso, an associate professor of international affairs and ...

One Year Later: AIDS in an African Town A year ago, Thembi Ngubane's audio diary on living with HIV in a South-African township aired on All Things Considered. Ngubane talks with Farai Chideya ...

AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa.1 Twenty-five million people in Sub-Saharan Africa are HIV-positive, with adult infection rates ranging from 1.35% in Niger to 35.8% in Botswana.2 ...