Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla
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DURBAN- “The challenge is to move from rhetoric to action,” said Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the AIDS 2000 conference, as he underlined the importance of safer sex, the use of condoms and interventions to stop mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS.
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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
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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.
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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)
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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).
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Addressing delegates at the AIDS 2000 conference on the role of gender and sexuality in the transmission of HIV/AIDS , Dr Geeta Rao Gupta said that “Empowering women does not disempower men”.
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DURBAN – The Medical Research Council of South Africa has received more than R100 million over five years to establish two new research units for the study of HIV/AIDS prevention strategies and vaccines.
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The South African Department of Health is “very pleased” with the results announced by researchers working on the Nevirapine Trials which showed a significant reduction in mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
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The “Positive Lives” exhibition features photos of HIV positive people from around the world in images which challenge the fear and prejudice that surround HIV.
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DURBAN – International agencies, national governments and the international drug companies had all failed the millions of people living with AIDS in developing countries in their quest for accessible treatment.
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For many young people, resigned to a life with few opportunities and a future without promise, sex is one of life’€™s few pleasures. But their lack of faith in the future means that many are not bothering to practice safe sex.
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If South Africa had given HIV/AIDS the same attention as we did to hosting the Soccer World Cup, we could have saved millions of lives, ANC Women’s League president Winnie Madikizela Mandela told some 3 000 people in Durban yesterday at an international march to demand cheaper HIV/AIDS drugs.