May 11, 2001

Abused women face double risk from partners

A recent report suggests a strong link between domestic violence and the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS among South African women. All too often women who are HIV positive choose to stay in abusive relationships because they need financial security or because they fear no one else will have them. In other instances, women run the risk of contracting HIV from being raped or from abusive husbands who are more likely to have extra-marital affairs. Kerry Cullinan reports.

Consumers likely to gain as pharmacy industry faces overhaul

The pharmacy industry has moved swiftly to prepare itself for the implementation of the much disputed Medicines and Related Substances Control Amendment Act that is set to bring huge changes to the entire medical industry. The price of prescription medicine is likely to fall as pharmacists swop their profit margins for a professional fee. Anso Thom reports...

Activists protest against HIV clinic’s collapse

AIDS activists will picket outside the Johannesburg Hospital's HIV clinic today (Friday) in protest against understaffing and poor resources which have rendered the clinic virtually inoperable over the past few months. As Anso Thom reports, the sorry state of affairs at the clinic has existed for some time.

Abused women face double risk from partners

Consumers likely to gain as pharmacy industry faces overhaul

Activists protest against HIV clinic’s collapse

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