4 March 2003

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Helping create a sexually responsible youthLiving with AIDS Programme 116

Holo Muchangwe Hachonda IV of Zambia is a young man with a very huge mission. In 1997, while still a teenager, he formed an organisation with the express aim of working in the field of sexual and reproductive health rights and HIV prevention. He has worked extensively with churches, schools and NGOs in Zambia to promote young people'€™s rights to access sexual and reproductive health information and services. In recognition of his efforts to reach out to the new generation, he was recently awarded an AMANITARE award. This award is presented to an individual or organisation that has made a meaningful contribution to women'€™s health and rights in Africa. Khopotso Bodibe of Health-e News Service, spoke to this visionary young lad and discovered that issues he confronts daily in his work are the same problems South Africa is plagued with.
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MCC provides leadership on HIV vaccine trials
Living with AIDS Programme 115

The uncertainty around whether long-awaited HIV vaccine trials scheduled for the first quarter of this year will eventually take place in South Africa, appears to have been cleared up. That'€™s if a consultative workshop hosted by the Medicines Control Council (MCC) last Friday (21-02-03) is anything to go by. At the workshop, attended by pharmaceutical company representatives, clinical researchers, scientists and ethicists, the MCC unveiled a draft document of guidelines and ethics for anticipated HIV/AIDS Vaccine Trials. Khopotso Bodibe attended the workshop and filed the following report.
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Living with AIDS Programme 115

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