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Historical Site Makes History: New Home For Africa Centre For HIV And AIDS Management

A new home has been built at Stellenbosch University (SU) to accommodate the increasing number of activities around its HIV and AIDS projects and...

In Response to The Minister of Health and his national TB Program Team; A team was developed within the NHLS to execute the National...

2012 PMTCT Report:

THE SOUTH AFRICAN PROGRAMME TO PREVENT MOTHER-TO-CHILD TRANSMISSION OF HIV (PMTCT) For the 2012 report "The evaluation of the early infant diagnosis service in primary...

NHLS Scientists In HIV Breakthrough

Two bright young scientists from the National Health Laboratory Service’s (NHLS) National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) have brought the world a step closer...

NHLS Researchers A Dominant Force In Africa

The NHLS featured prominently as a dominant force on the African continent when two of its researchers, their research teams and collaborators were awarded inaugural...

Women’s Day 2012

Please click the link to see Women's Day Attachement.

CDC Review Finds No Link Between Hormonal Contraception And HIV Risk

A data review by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has failed to confirm a previously described association between injectable or...

Jury Out On Using ARV Prophylaxis

South African guidelines for the preventative use of HIV medication by men who have sex with men who are not infected with the virus...

NHLS Joins the World in Reaching the Target on TB

12 June 2012; Durban. According to the Chairperson of the TB Conference Prof Martie van der Walt, the rate of TB infection is on...

New Study On Microbicide Vaginal Ring To Prevent HIV

Cape Town, 13th June 2012 – A new clinical trial in the area of HIV prevention for women is underway in South Africa. It...