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Zackie Achmat…openly gay, HIV positive, humanitarian, intensely private

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Treatment Action Campaign chairperson Zackie Achmat has been both condemned and praised for smuggling cheap medicines into the country as part of his organisation's challenge to drug companies. ANSO THOM tries to find the person behind the controversy.

Health-e News
October 27, 2000

45% of adults will become HIV infected

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Almost half of South Africa's 15-year olds will become infected with HIV during the course of their lifetime. And the probability of die before the age of 60. But it is important to unpack these frightening figures in order to make sense of them. Jo Stein reports

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October 27, 2000

Love them enough to talk to them about sex

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Parents generally are still not advising their children about sex ' despite the fact that unprotected sex can kill their children, thanks to HIV/AIDS.Most new HIV infections take place amongst youngsters between the ages of 15 and 20. If the current infection rates continue, statisticians predict that 50% of all 15-year-olds could die of AIDS-related diseases. Kerry Cullinan reports.

Kerry Cullinan
October 27, 2000

AIDS epidemic is no election issue

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We are all the losers as political parties cynically exploit HIV/AIDS to win votes. Kerry Cullinan reports.

Kerry Cullinan
October 27, 2000

South Africa yet to express interest in UNAIDS drug offer

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Six months after five major pharmaceutical companies and the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) declared their intention to make HIV drugs more affordable to poor countries, South Africa has yet to express formal interest in entering negotiations.

Anso Thom
October 27, 2000

Controversial Mpumalanga Health MEC investigates successful AIDS NGO

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Mpumalanga MEC Sibongile Manana has set her sights on another successful non-governmental AIDS organisation, this time ordering an investigation into the Mpumalanga Project Support Association's (MPSA) operations. ANSO THOM investigates.

Anso Thom
October 27, 2000

New evidence that drugs prevent HIV infection after rape

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New research provides direct evidence that anti-retroviral drugs can prevent HIV infection after sexual intercourse. This research comes amid a series of controversial decisions regarding the provision of AZT to rape victims in South Africa. The new national guidelines for HIV care launched on Tuesday (24th October) deny the use of anti-retroviral drugs to rape survivors but the Western Cape will provide AZT to rape survivors nonetheless. Jo Stein reports.

October 27, 2000

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