7 July 2000

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Nkosi not yet ready to go to heaven

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The red ribbon pinned to his windbreaker is the first thing you notice. Then the wide smile, the huge, deep-sunken eyes and his incredibly frail body. Nkosi Johnson (11), touted for many years by the media as one of the longest HIV survivor in the country, is ill.

healthe
July 7, 2000

The man behind South Africa’s AIDS vaccine

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It's like putting a man on the moon. They believed and knew they could do it. We believe and there is a firm scientific conviction that a vaccine against AIDS will be developed." Dr Walter Prozesky, the driving force behind South Africa's effort to find an AIDS vaccine, speaks this with "firm conviction".

Health-e News
July 7, 2000

AIDS’ first couple – a formidable team

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If there were such a title, thirty-something Salim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim would be South Africa's "first couple" of HIV/AIDS research.

Health-e News
July 7, 2000

Speaking out to protect science

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Professor Hoosen "Jerry" Coovadia used to be a draw-card speaker at anti-apartheid rallies. Yet today he finds himself at odds with the very democratic government he fought so hard to install over its HIV/AIDS policy.

Health-e News
July 7, 2000

Committed to the cause of fighting HIV/AIDS

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Bongani Khumalo responds well to causes. From the South African Council of Churches, the Red Cross, the South African National Men's Forum which he founded, "to inculcate responsible behaviour among men", to Deputy Chief Executive at Eskom where he was responsible for restructuring and transformation, Bongani Khumalo is a committed to causes.

healthe
July 7, 2000

Speaking out to protect science

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kerrycullinan
July 7, 2000

Journalists, ethics and HIV/AIDS

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It is death rather than renaissance that draws the foreign press to Africa. But where are the ethics that protect HIV/AIDS sufferers from unscrupulous journalists?

kerrycullinan
July 7, 2000

AIDS patients die while government fails to support established projects

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Despite the fact that state hospitals cannot afford to care for those dying of AIDS, government's failure to work with non-governmental organisations is undermining volunteer home-care projects in KwaZulu-Natal. Over the past six months, Sinosizo, a home-based care organisation started by the Catholic Church, has closed its operations in the entire Western Region ' including Hammarsdale, Shongweni, Inchanga and the inner west.

Kerry Cullinan
July 7, 2000

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