Africa’s HIV fight is still on

As the global community observes World AIDS Day on 1 December 2014, Professor Linda-Gail Bekker, new president-elect of the International AIDS Society (IAS) and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the University of Cape Town, says the fight against...

UCT research curbs TB in HIV patients

A trial of isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) plus antiretroviral therapy (ART) to prevent tuberculosis has shown safety and efficacy in patients with HIV, say researchers of a University of Cape Town (UCT) study published in The Lancet. Tuberculosis (TB) is the...