14 July 2000

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Hope for the future: Ugandan youth turn back the HIV tide

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"If you have a very big elephant and you want to eat it up, you start from all corners. That way you'll finish it up." So says Edith Mukisa, the founder of Uganda's Teenage HIV/AIDS Clinic in Naguru, just outside the capital Kampala.This is the philosophy that lies at the core of Uganda's multi-sectoral response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. And it's paying dividends. by Carolyn Dempster

Ali Karriem
July 14, 2000

Appreciating every day

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Brett Anderson never thought he had contracted HIV. "I was as sick as a dog but I never thought of HIV despite having all the symptoms. It never crossed my mind. It simply wasn't real to me. Now, it's in my blood. It's part of my life," says the 28-year-old Capetonian.

Ali Karriem
July 14, 2000

Drugs are the bottom-line

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"Nobody says we shouldn't treat TB or cancer because we don't have the infrastructure or the ability to do so properly," said Dr Andy Grey from the Health System Trust in Durban. This was in response to Dr Mazuwa Banda from the World Health Organization, who argued at the AIDS 2000 conference that antiretroviral drugs should not be distributed in countries where "the basic requirements for [their] safe, effective use" are not in place.

Ali Karriem
July 14, 2000

Government should decide on Nevirapine by the end of the conference – Coovadia

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DURBAN - The South African government should be in a position to make a decision about the provision of Nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS by this afternoon. (Friday)

Ali Karriem
July 14, 2000

Scientists re-affrim assertion that HIV causes AIDS

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DURBAN - More than 5 000 scientists re-affirmed their assertion that HIV causes AIDS and endorsed the Durban Declaration at the AIDS 2000 conference yesterday. (Thursday).

Ali Karriem
July 14, 2000

Rape, murder charges for those who infect others with AIDS

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Law experts are unlikely to recommend that government introduce HIV-specific laws to punish those who knowingly infect others.

kerrycullinan
July 14, 2000

HIV positive women speak out at AIDS conference

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"I refuse to be identical to a statistic. I feel, I get sexy, I get hungry. Whatever you feel about your sexuality, I also feel," declared Brigitte Syamalevure, mother of 11 and an HIV positive Zambian.

Kerry Cullinan
July 14, 2000

Campaign for cheap drugs from Thailand

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"Very high" medicine prices have prompted HIV/AIDS activist organisation to mount "legal action" against [drug company] Pfizer, to bring generic medicine into the country from Thailand to help treat HIV positive people.

kerrycullinan
July 14, 2000

Death of an innocent

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Busisiwe Maqungo (28) had her suspicions that she was at risk of being HIV positive long before receiving confirmation via a test. In fact she was told her baby was HIV positive, before undergoing a test herself.

Anso Thom
July 14, 2000

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