A study finding that foreigners are about half as likely to fail antiretroviral (ARV) treatment as South African citizens attending the same Johannesburg clinic has challenged widely held assumptions about migrants' ability to adhere to HIV/AIDS drug regimens.

Health authorities in Zimbabwe said Tuesday a measles outbreak in the country had killed 22 people, mainly children, in one district alone since the beginning of this month.

Ten months after being re-launched, a new brand of female condom has proven popular among a test group of Ugandan women, according to a study.

One in four South African men questioned in a survey said they had raped someone, and nearly half of them admitted more than one attack.

South Africa will provide treatment to all babies who test positive for HIV, President Jacob Zuma said Tuesday, announcing an expansion of AIDS care for mothers and children.

Zimbabwe's ailing public health system will receive a 180 million US dollar boost to fight HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria from the Global Fund, state media reported Wednesday.

An estimated 33.4 million people worldwide are infected with the AIDS virus, up from 33 million in 2007, but more people are living longer due to the availability of drugs, according to a United Nations report.

A new 12 million dollar family planning drive launched here Wednesday highlights how Obama administration funding has revamped a contraception drive in Africa and developing states, UN officials said, noting a sharp turnaround from the Bush era.

Police have launched an operation that has netted 51 people, including six doctors, for allegedly dispensing expired and unregistered drugs.

Wavering international support for HIV/AIDS efforts is resulting in funding shortfalls that could wipe out a decade of progress in rolling out AIDS treatment, the international medical and humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has warned.

Health experts and researchers met in the Kenyan capital Tuesday to find ways of eradicating malaria, the world's deadliest infectious disease that kills around 900,000 people every year.

To detect malaria people might soon be able to chew a stick of gum and swipe it over a magnet or scan a finger with ultra-far infrared light. Neither test requires a blood sample.

African leaders were urged Thursday to increase efforts to end HIV infections among children and women, in the world's worst affected continent.

Workers trudge through foul-smelling mud in a trench seeping with clean drinking water and raw sewage in one of the Harare neighbourhoods hardest hit by last year's cholera epidemic.

War, kidnappings and rape are displacing a lot of people causing a humanitarian crisis in Democratic Republic of Congo says doctors without borders.