Historical Background Towards the tail-end of the 20th century, HIV and AIDS epidemic established itself as the most devastating epidemic defying the most aggressive scientific battles to combat it. With over 30 million people infected and an estimated 10 million people dead, the epidemic metamorphosed from public health problem into an overall development challenge undermining African renaissance. The Society for AIDS in Africa was founded in 1989 at the fourth International Symposium on ... Read more
SAA envisions an African continent free of HIV, TB and Malaria and their debilitating effects on our communal and societal structures, where people are socially and economically empowered to live productive life in dignity.
To promote policies and research to support governments’ national response to the epidemic in the continent.
To decrease the spread and mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS, STIs, Tuberculosis and Malaria in the African continent, through various activities.
Cape Town, South Africa, 18-20 April 2013 The African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa (WHO-AFRO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the Society for AIDS in Africa, and the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society have called a meeting to bring together HIV clinicians, policymakers and laboratory scientists to discuss how best to design and implement effective and sustainable HIV viral load programmes. Invited guests will include experts and representatives from Ministries of Health, as well as local ...
Press Communiqué: Pre-selection for ICASA 2015 Host Country completed It is now certain that either Ghana or Tunisia would be hosting the 18th International Conference on HIV/AIDS and STI's in Africa ,(ICASA 2015). Registered Society for AIDS in Africa members made the pre-selection for Tunisia, Ghana and Congo. Tunisia had the highest votes with 964, Ghana came second with 734 and Congo came third with 578. Though all African countries were eligible to be considered to host ICASA, they had to meet certain criteria in order to ...
Key stakeholders in the fight against HIV/AIDS, namely the Ghana AIDS Commission, the UN AIDS, the Society for AIDS in Africa, and the South African Embassy, have launched the 17th edition of the International Conference on AIDS and STI’s in Africa(ICASA) at a press conference in Accra, Ghana. The event which was organized under theme, ‘’Now more than ever, getting to Zero’’ was very well attended by press men, from various radio , television and print media organizations across the country. ICASA is a platform that brings ...
17thICASANow more than ever: Targeting zero
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