The Southern African HIV Clinicians Society has released guidelines intended as an update to those published in the Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine in 2012.

Few diseases have had a greater education effort poured into them than HIV/AIDS. So why, writes Professor David Dickinson, a sociologist at Wits University, after almost 30 years of public health messages do alternative, non-scientific explanations of AIDS continue to circulate?

Foreign prisoners in Botswana with HIV/Aids will have to wait longer before they receive free antiretroviral medication, with the government’s appeal against a High Court ruling.

A 40% dose of intra-dermal inactivated polio vaccine achieved non-inferior antibody responses in HIV patients, compared with a full dose administered intramuscularly, according to a randomised controlled trial.

New data from the Partners PrEP study suggest that although resistance selected by pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is rare among those who acquire HIV, it can occur in patients with unknown acute HIV infection at PrEP initiation.