HIV and AIDS remains a major health challenge in South Africa. Unlike the initial days after it was discovered and considered a death sentence by many, its negative impact tremendously been reduced ...

There is currently no indication that Barrs Pharmaceuticals is at risk of liquidation, but even if it is the supply of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines will not be disrupted, the national department of ...

PITTSBURGH, May 23 – Their scientific methods may have been quite different, but their conclusions were not. In asking whether drug resistance could be a problem if antiretroviral (ARV) drugs become a ...

The ARVs tend to cause a higher appetite in the animals, so they eat their food better and grow fat ARVs! Anti-Retro Viral drugs. You think you know what they are used for. That they are for treating ...

Refusing help for the wrong reasons is self-destructive and counter-productive. Insisting on being self-reliant takes this idea even further, relegating societal support structures to the status of ...

The Department of Health believes that while the discovery of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) in the country's tap water and rivers means those needing them are taking them, there is a need for ...

According to a report this morning several doctors in Soweto were attacked this weekend by armed gangs who broke into ...

That mouth-watering piece of chicken that you routinely devour at your local restaurant or house could be laced with Anti-Retroviral (ARV) drugs, which are meant to slow down the dreaded HIV virus.

South Africa’s programme to give mothers antiretroviral treatment preventing them from transmitting HIV to their babies during pregnancy and breastfeeding is rightly lauded for saving lives. The ...