South
Africa: Rural Woman Risk HIV for Employment, 15
September 2004
Full
story
A
new study has found that rural South African women
run the same risk of contracting HIV as men when
seeking work in urban centres.
South
Africa: Antiretroviral Therapy is Cost-Effective,
Says Report, 15 September 2004
Full
story
A
new study says the benefits of a public sector
rollout of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to people
living with HIV/AIDS outweigh the costs of not
doing so.
South
Africa: Using Beaded Crafts to Talk About HIV/Aids,
15 September 2004 Full
story
Gender
inequalities in rural South Africa have traditionally
left women with no voice, but a group of female
Zulu doll makers in the KwaZulu-Natal province
are now speaking about HIV/AIDS through their
craftwork.
Waiting
lists for Aids drugs 'can kill', 14 September
2004
Full
story
South Africans in the final stages of Aids are
being sent away from treatment clinics, with instructions
to return a year later to get their first anti-retroviral
drugs, according to activist groups.
HIV
shock for married couples, 14 September 2004
Full
story
Cape
Town - A recent study found that South Africa's
rate of HIV among married couples, 10.5%, was
horrifyingly high compared to global statistics.
Activists
slam virginity testing, 14 September 2004 Full
story
Gender
activists have lambasted the virginity tests on
girls participating in the annual Royal Zulu Reed
Dance.They say the tests are discriminatory because
they focus only on women.
New
body to keep eye on ARV programme, 14 September
2004
Full
story
High-profile organisations including the Institute
for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa), the Treatment
Action Campaign (TAC) and multi-national company
Anglo American, have formed a new organisation
to monitor the government's Aids drugs programmes.
Aids
among medics to 'devastate' health care system,
12 September 2004 Full
story
The
increasing number of HIV positive health care
professionals will have a devastating impact on
the South African health system, already under
pressure from growing number of HIV/Aids patients.
Aids
to 'devastate' healthcare, 12 September 2004 Full
story
Johannesburg
- The increasing number of HIV positive healthcare
professionals will have a devastating impact on
the South African health system, already under
pressure from growing number of HIV/Aids patients.
Changing
the attitudes of Africa's youth, 12 September
2004
Full
story
The young girl beams as she talks about her expectations
of the annual Umkhosi Womhlanga (Royal Reed Dance).
Husbands
to be to undergo HIV testing in KwaZulu-Natal,
11 September 2004 Full
story
Zulu
maidens attend the reed dance in Nongoma, KwaZulu-Natal.The
Zulu Monarchy is in the process of getting all
prospective husbands of reed dancers to be tested
for HIV. The announcement was made at the annual
reed dance in Nongoma by Princess Thembi, a senior
member of the Zulu royal family. Over 20 000 maidens
attended today's event.
Surge
in alternative drugs, 10 September 2004 Full
story
Johannesburg
- The Medicines Control Council (MCC) has received
over 13 000 applications for registration from
the alternative health industry, Registrar of
Medicines Dr Precious Matsoso said on Friday.
South
Africa: Continued Role of Schools in Aids Fight
Urged, 10 September 2004 Full
story
Schools
have a crucial role to play in ensuring that South
African youth are not at risk of contracting HIV
and AIDS, premier of the North West province,
Edna Molewa, has said.
South
Africa: Traditional Medicine Gets Formal Recognition,
10 September 2004
Full
story
Traditional
healers in South Africa were formally recognised
this week after parliament approved legislation
to regulate the industry
New
centre to be 'Aids monitor', 7 September 2004
Full
story
Pretoria
- A centre dedicated to detecting adverse effects
of anti-Aids drugs, including traditional medicines,
was launched outside Pretoria on Tuesday.
Aids
project tours the country, 6 September 2004
Full
story
The sectoral education and training authority
for the Finance, Accounting, Management Consulting
and Other Financial Services (Fasset) will be
hosting roadshows on HIV/Aids awareness in all
nine provinces this month.
Balekane
ba kgothalletswa ho itlhatlhohba – Karolo
2, 3 September 2004 Full
story
Tlalehong
ya rona ya ho qetela ya bophelo le HIV re utlwile
ka projeke e ntjha Aforika Borwa ho kgothalletsa
balekane ho fumana tsebo le ho nka teko mmoho
ho tseba ka seemo sa bona le kokwana hloko ena.
Couples
encouraged to test – Part 2: Living with
AIDS # 188, 3 September 2004 Full
story
Last
week we heard about South Africa’s first
HIV counselling and testing service for couples
– the Tshwarisanang Centre based at Chris
Hani Baragwanath Hospital, in Soweto. This week,
a couple talks about how this service has benefited
them.
HIV
drugs plan surpasses Rasool's target, 3 September
2004
Full
story
Health MEC Pierre Uys says 4 200 people in the
Western Cape are taking anti-retrovirals. It
has been estimated that around 50 000 people in
the province have end-stage Aids and are ill enough
to need the drugs.
Global
Fund Adopts Mass Media Drive to Raise Profile,
3 September 2004 Full
story
The
Global Fund has launched a mass media campaign
in an effort to raise increased awareness and
funding for their fight against HIV and AIDS,
Malaria and Tuberculosis (TB).
Baby
Jake throws his weight behind Aids fight, 2 September
2004
Full
story
Former world boxing flyweight champion Baby Jake
Matlala led the fight against HIV/Aids at Mondi's
Durban headquarters in Merebank, where he was
the guest of honour at the company's HIV/Aids
programme on Wednesday.
Zambia's
Mumba takes Aids test in public, 1 September 2004
Full
story
Lusaka - Zambian Vice-President Nevers Mumba has
taken an HIV test and urged others in the Aids-afflicted
southern African country to follow suit.
Recruits
fight 'HIV shut-out', 30 August 2004 Full
story
Johannesburg
- A legal battle is looming between the army and
four South Africans who claim they have been shut
out of the military because they tested HIV-positive.
Failures
blemish Mbeki's progress report, 29 August 2004
Full
story
Just 100 days after President Thabo Mbeki set
more than 100 measurable targets, it seems his
government has gone all out to deliver on time.
Yet
we still don't know whether or not the 200 most
notorious criminals are behind bars, and whether
or not the promised antiretroviral drug (ARV)
treatment for 53 000 HIV-positive people will
take place by March next year.
Traditionalists
see virtue in virgin testing Sibusiso Ngalwa,
29 August 2004 Full
story
The practice of ukuhlola died out during
the past century, but has made a comeback in various
areas of South Africa, including KwaZulu-Natal,
in recent years.
Relief
aid for Eastern Cape Aids orphans, 29 August 2004
Full
story
South
Africa is currently faced with the escalating
number of children orphaned by the HIV/Aids pandemic
and TB. A community in the Eastern Cape has decided
to lend a helping hand to these children.
Aids
study shows fewer teenage infections, 27 August
2004 Full
story
Mbabane
- Far fewer Swazi teenage girls are HIV positive
than previously estimated, bringing a rare glimmer
of good news to a country fighting one of the
world's worst Aids epidemics, according to a United
Nations-sponsored study.
Film
portrays pain of HIV/Aids pandemic in rural KwaZulu,
27 August 2004 Full
story
It
may be hailed as a moving piece of cinematic fiction,
but for millions of South Africans, it's a frighteningly
real story unfolding daily in the poverty-stricken
countryside.
Minister
concedes lags in AIDS-drug drive, 27 August 2004
Full
story
CAPE
TOWN Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
conceded yesterday that her department was not
likely to meet government's target of getting
AIDS drugs to 53000 patients by next March.
South
Africa: Concern Over Impact of TB On HIV-Positive
People, 26 August 2004
Full
story
South
African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
has expressed concern over treatment adherence
and the impact of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
(MDR-TB) on people living with HIV/AIDS. Follow the article Inhibiteurs de la phosphodiestérase liés au mélanome
Southern
Africa: HIV/Aids Changing the Face of Agriculture,
26 August 2004
Full
story
HIV/AIDS
has not only forced farming communities to opt
for less labour-intensive cropping patterns, it
has also led to the loss of local knowledge of
agro-ecology and farming practices in Southern
Africa, a senior Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO) official told IRIN on Thursday.
CSIR
warns on fluoride risks to HIV sufferers. 26 August
2004 Full
story
THE
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR) has warned that adding fluoride to SA's
drinking water poses a possible health risk to
people with HIV/AIDS, as well as those suffering
from malnutrition.
South
Africa: PMTCT Continues Despite Nevirapine Controversy,
25 August 2004
Full
story
A
programme for the prevention of mother-to-child
transmission of HIV (PMTCT) will continue in South
Africa's Gauteng province, provincial health minister
Gwen Ramokgopa has announced.
HIV-sufferer:
Manto is right, 23 August 2004 Full
story
Johannesburg
- Doctor Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is spot on when
she says people should use garlic, pumpkinseeds,
lemon juice and vitamins to ward off the HIV virus.
Condom
dress creates matric ball to remember, 22 August
2004 Full
story
Plunging
necklines and flesh-baring glitzy designs have
caused a stir at many a matric dance. But an outfit
covered in condoms has to be a first.
ARV
treatment 'too late', 20 August 2004 Full
story
Anti-retroviral
(ARV) treatment given to 61 patients, some HIV-positive,
at Sterkfontein psychiatric hospital in Johannesburg
after an assistant nurse allegedly used the same
needle on all of them, is likely to be ineffective,
because the treatment was provided too late.
Aids
group demands cheap drug, 20 August 2004 Full
story
Johannesburg
- The US' biggest Aids group, Aids Healthcare
Foundation (AHF), has called on British drug company
GlaxoSmithKline to lower the price of the Aids
drug Combivir to R7 (US$1) a month immediately.
Aspen
records sixth growth in profit, 19 August 2004
Full
story
HIV
and the clergy – Part 4: Living with AIDS
#186, 19 August 2004 Full
story
Parliament
approves law to extend abortion services, 19 August
2004 Full
story
What
future awaits HIV-positive soldiers? 18 August
2004
Full
story
Buthelezi:
Aids destroyed us, 17 August 2004 Full
story
Zim
civic groups vow to fight tough new law, 16 August
2004 Full
story
KwaZulu-Natal
student deaths under the spotlight, 14 August
2004 Full
story
Achmat
calls on youth to be more 'proactive', 13 August
2004 Full
story
HIV/Aids
specialists, govt meet on nevirapine, 12 August
2004 Full
story
SA
teens to test Aids vaccine , 12 August 2004 Full
story
HIV
in the clergy – Part 3: Living with AIDS
# 185, 12 August 2004 Full
story
More
research on nevirapine, 12 August 2004 Full
story
Now
the blind can read about Aids, 12 August 2004
Full
story
Veteran
perspective on HIV/AIDS, 11 August 2004 Full
story
Aids
researchers unite for greater exposure, 10 August
2004 Full
story
My
daughter died of Aids, reveals Buthelezi, 9 August
2004 Full
story
Western
Cape launches Women's Month programme, 3 August
2004 Full
story
No
Aids crisis in SANDF, says Lekota, 3 August 2004
Full
story
SADC
ministers of health oppose human cloning, 3 August
2004 Full
story
High
cost caps use of female condom, 3 August 2004
Full
story
Lekota
dismisses Aids stats on SANDF, 2 August 2004
Full
story
Reviewing
a sick society, 2 August 2004 Full
story
Tale
of two cities, 2 August 2004 Full
story
'Supply
of gloves a must for cops', 2 August 2004
Full
story
Health
express rushes medicine to SA's poor, 2 August
2004 Full
story
Napwa
criticises latest Aids stats, 1 August 2004
Full
story
Auction
held for Aids orphans, 1 August 2004
Full
story
Another
feather added to Zackie Achmat's cap, 1 August
2004 Full
story
Swaziland
in 'deep crisis', 1 August 2004 Full
story
SANDF
unveils shock Aids data, 1 August 2004
Full
story
Zackie
should be more honest - Manto, 30 July 2004
Full
story
Aids
is not HIV, says Manto again, 29 July 2004
Full
story
Baruti
le HIV – Karolo 1, 29 July 2004 Full
story
HIV
in the clergy – Part 1, 29 July 2004 Full
story
Licence
boost for cheap drugs, 29 July 2004 Full
story
Church
challenged on Aids, 29 July 2004 Full
story
Aids
drug prices to be challenged, 29 July 2004 Full
story
Aids
is reversing all SA's health gains, 29 July 2004
Full
story
Next
year, four million will be HIV-positive, 29 July
2004
Full
story
Aspirin,
Band-Aid will not cure SA's sickly health service,
29 July 2004 Full
story
Ailing
state health 'fails SA's poor', 29 July 2004 Full
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