23 April 2015
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is to officially launch “Effective Responses to HIV and AIDS at Work: A multi-country study in Africa” on Friday 24 April 2015 at the Ernst and Young Building, in Sandton – Johannesburg,…
11 November 2014
Relative to national estimates, HIV prevalence is high among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the three largest cities of South Africa. In Cape Town, the overall prevalence among MSM recruited into the study was 22.3%, in Johannesburg it was…
20 July 2014
A very large number of HIV-infected pregnant women globally do not receive treatment – in fact, in 2012, only 37% of women in low and middle-income countries received antenatal HIV testing. The suboptimal coverage of detection and treatment…
17 July 2014
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 35.3 Million people were living with HIV/AIDS worldwide in 2012 while 1.6 million died of AIDS-related illnesses worldwide at the same period. The report further reveals that Sub-Saharan Africa…
01 April 2014
An estimated 6.4 million people were living with HIV/AIDS in 2012. This is one of the main findings of The South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behaviour Survey 2012, officially launched today by Minister of Science and Technology,…
27 March 2014
LAUNCH OF THE FOURTH SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL HIV, BEHAVIOUR AND HEALTH SURVEY, 2012 Tuesday, 1 April 2014, 10:00 – 11:00 Members of the media are invited to the launch of the HSRC’s latest HIV National Household Survey, followed by a media…
20 March 2014
Pretoria, 20 March 2014 The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has appointed Professor Vasu Reddy as Executive Director of the Human and Social Development (HSD) Research Programme with effect from 1 April 2014. Professor Reddy joined the…
14 October 2013
Press Release: Immediate Date: 14 October 2013 The Human Sciences Research Council is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Dimitri Tassiopoulos as a member of the Ministry of Tourism research policy expert forum. The forum serves as peer review…
06 August 2013
South Africa has a huge burden of disease, fuelled by a range of risk factors, and morbidity (illness and disease) and mortality (death) figures are high.This is shown by the results of the first South African National Health and Nutrition…
20 June 2013
Speaker: Dr Olive Shisana Many more people with HIV are alive because of ARV treatment The HSRC released the key findings of the 2012 household survey at the 6th South African AIDS Conference in Durban. The results show that an estimated 6.4 million…
