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23 March 2001

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A simple invention saves patient’s  leg from amputation

Seeing a simple idea and "storing it because you never know when you'€™re going to use it" is what led to University of Cape Town (UCT) lecturer Dr George Vicatos to design a device which has saved a 18 year old cancer patient'€™s leg. A Senior Lecturer at UCT'€™s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vicatos and his team worked against the clock to design the endo-prosthetic replacement for  part of the patient's femur and knee.
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Tutu – TB can be beaten

Every 40 minutes tuberculosis (TB) kills one South African. Some 160 000 people are infected annually in South Africa and worldwide about eight million people suffer from the disease. Former head of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu contracted TB in 1947, spent nearly two years in hospital, but survived to tell the tale. Today he is part of a campaign to de-stigmatise TB and promote the principle that the treatment and cure of TB is a basic human right.
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Reversing roles on stage
Living with AIDS programme 24

A group of actors in conjunction with the AIDS organisation, Wola Nani, are volunteering their time to run workshops that use the Boal forum theatre technique to inform and equip people with HIVAIDS to understand their rights and to act upon them. By involving the audience in the play to the extent that they re-enact parts of the drama, participants are empowered to change the tone and content so that they are able to practise asserting their interests and concerns.
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Living with AIDS programme 24

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