South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Doctors For Life South Africa successfully hosted the latest International AIDS Conference in Durban last week — this time, having a track record of rolling out the largest HIV treatment programme in the world. Indeed, we have come a long way from those disastrous days of Government AIDS denialism […]
South Africa, where moves towards decriminalising prostitution seem to be gaining momentum, is going in the opposite direction to the rest of the world on the issue, says Doctors For Life International (DFL) in a media release. Billboards put up by the Department of Health in Gauteng a few months […]
It was refreshing to hear Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa admit HIV thrives in “situations of unequal gender relations.” The trade unionist-billionaire businessman- politician made his remark as part of a speech at the country’s main World Aids Day event in KwaZulu-Natal. Although Ramaphosa pointed out that the virus infects and […]
Prayers were answered yesterday when a 103-year-old, Durban, Christian-run hospital that has the biggest HIV Aids programme in South Africa was given a new lease of life, two weeks after announcing it had to close down because of lack of funding. In a welcome media announcement KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Health, […]
‘It works every time,’ says scientist Originally published in Christian Post Researchers in Australia are on the verge of being able to develop a treatment and possible cure for HIV/AIDS after a new method for fighting the virus showed promising results. The research was conducted by David Harrich of Queensland […]
From Africa Christian Action Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for homosexuality to be decriminalised to help tackle HIV. His comments come in an analysis in The Lancet journal of why incidence of the virus continues to grow among men who have sex with men. Dr Tutu said anti-homosexuality laws would […]
By Thaddeus Baklinski — Originally published in LifeStiteNews.Com 1.35 million condoms given out prior to celebrations put on by South Africa’s governing political party, the African National Congress, have been recalled due to complaints that the locally made prophylactics were defective. Spokesman Jabu Mbalula of the health department of the […]