HIV VACCINE FINALLY SHOWS PROMISE
A six-year clinical trial in Thailand has yielded the first ever evidence that an AIDS vaccine can provide some protection against HIV infection.
MAMBA READS
In our first Mamba Reads offering, Morné Malan takes a hustle through the bookstore’s homo-shelf, and asks what’s in a gay book, and what makes a book gay?
SERBIAN ACTIVISTS UNDER ATTACK
A new Amnesty International report says that Serbian human rights defenders are under attack and authorities are failing to protect them.
FILM FESTIVAL POSTERS REMOVED
The Out in Africa gay and lesbian film festival says that a number of its posters have disappeared from street poles in Cape Town.
ARV PRICES CONTINUE TO VARY
A new study has found that some nations are paying up to three times more for the life-prolonging medicines than others.
SEX EDUCATION EFFORT RAISES STORM CLOUDS
An attempt to help educators around the world develop sex-education programmes among young people has become bogged down in controversy.
CLIMATE AND AIDS ACTIVISTS URGED TO JOIN FORCES
There is a move to bring players from the HIV/AIDS and Climate Change movements together to collaborate on research.
OIA OPENING GALLERY
The annual Out In Africa gay and lesbian film festival recently launched its 16th edition at Montecasino, Joburg. Mambaonline was there to hobnob and capture the occasion.
BOOK ON TRADITIONAL CIRCUMCISION CAUSES STIR
A new book has broken the silence over what really goes on during traditional male circumcisions in South Africa.
SIMPLY BLUE 5TH BIRTHDAY
How time does fly! The ground breaking Simply Blue nightclub in Braamfontein, Joburg, recently celebrated its 5th birthday with a mega bash. Check out the gallery.