2001-01-12 04:00:00 PDT Johannesburg-- On a continent where AIDS still brings shame to those who are stricken by it, the slow decline of South Africa's youngest activist has captured the heart of a ...

The most powerful message can come from the un-likeliest messenger. When Nkosi Johnson, an 11-year-old South African with AIDS, walked onto the stage at an international AIDS conference in Durban last ...

Nkosi’s Haven, a renowned South African organisation founded in memory of the late Nkosi Johnson, has long been a safe haven for women and children affected by HIV and AIDS. For years the organisation ...

J O H A N N E S B U R G, South Africa, Jan. 8 -- South Africa’s most prominent woman, the wife of President Thabo Mbeki, paid a farewell call to her country’s most famous little boy today, Nkosi ...

Nkosi Johnson was only 12 years old when the virus ravaged his body. At the time he died, Nkosi was the longest-surviving child born with HIV. Nkosi was born with the virus in Johannesburg, South ...

Tributes from all corners of the world have been pouring in to mark the death of Nkosi Johnson. Since he died in the early hours of Friday, his website has been flooded with letters of condolence from ...

Nkosi Johnson died a year after the 2000 Durban AIDS Conference, and his premature death was probably one of the only AIDS deaths in a child that got noticed. At that time, he was one of the 70,000 ...

Some 30 years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, stigma and discrimination continue to take a toll. For example, in South Africa, some young, HIV positive mothers can find themselves homeless and shunned by ...

J O H A N N E S B U R G, South Africa, Jan. 7 -- He is the little boy who put a brave and smiling face on AIDS in Africa. He survived longer than any AIDS baby on the continent. But now 11-year-old ...

South African activist Nkosi Johnson was only 12 years old when he died. At the time, in 2001, he was the longest-surviving child born with HIV. Born Xolani Nkosi to an HIV positive mother, he was ...