The two key barriers to obtaining AIDS drugs in South Africa until 2004 were the state's
support of AIDS denialism and high prices. The work of civil-society advocacy groups was …

South Africa is home to the largest HIV seropositive population in the world, with 7· 2 million
individuals. 1 Since the country's first case of HIV in 1982, South Africa has come a long way …

A new era of unity and action on HIV/AIDS appears to be dawning in South Africa after years
of confusion and conflict that made the health ministry the target of international ostracism …

We attended the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa in July where
the unprecedented magnitude and impact of the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa was …

South African AIDS activists are to take legal action against their government because of its
refusal to provide HIV-positive women with drugs to prevent mother-to-child transmission …

On May 30, 2013, the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the
Post-2015 Development Agenda published its eagerly anticipated report. 1 The unequivocal …

In South Africa, the euphoria of the peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy has
been dulled by the devastation of HIV/AIDS. The epidemic has had a disproportionate effect …

“We need to do our utmost so that the benefits of the new treatments can reach those
poorest people in Africa and in the rest of the world” said Jacques Chirac, former French …

The Central African Republic is in the midst of a major health and humanitarian crisis,
related particu larly to the HIV epidemic, that is largely out of control (Sept 15, p 964). 1 The …

As South Africa prepares for round two of a landmark legal struggle on April 18, which has
raised hopes of cut-price drugs, notably for HIV/AIDS (see Lancet, March 10, p 775), the …