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Sex, drugs and Amsterdam – is tolerance the answer?

Amsterdam’s tolerance of sex work and recreational drugs has translated into better health outcomes for its citizens. Can its approach be adopted by other countries where HIV thrives in the shadows?

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July 30, 2018

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Green light for legalized red light districts?

The ANC recently voted to decriminalize sex work and Amsterdam’s red light district offers an example of how this could work – but many South African lawmakers support partial decriminalization, where clients rather than sex workers become the criminals.

kerrycullinan
July 26, 2018

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New ARV not for women wanting to fall pregnant

AMSTERDAM - Dolutegravir, the new wonder antiretroviral (ARV) drug, should not be given to women who want to get pregnant, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned this week.

kerrycullinan
July 26, 2018

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Many HIV convictions not supported by science

AMSTERDAM - The prosecution of HIV positive people for deliberately infecting or endangering others is often not supported by science, according to 20 top scientists including Nobel Laureate Francoise Barre-Sinoussi.

kerrycullinan
July 26, 2018

Health

SA negotiates cheaper TB drug for entire world

The entire world will benefit from a price cut of a TB wonder drug, following successful negotiations between South Africa and pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson.

kerrycullinan
July 25, 2018

Health

Prince Harry and Elton John target men

AMSTERDAM - Prince Harry and Elton John on Tuesday launched a $1,2-billion new initiative called MenStar, aimed at reducing HIV in men at the International AIDS Conference.

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July 25, 2018

Health

Charlize says HIV driven by exclusion of groups

AMSTERDAM: The ongoing spread of HIV is directly linked to the inferior status of girls and women globally, Academy Award winning actress Charlize Theron told the International AIDS Conference today (24 July).

kerrycullinan
July 24, 2018

Health

Delegates walk out of AIDS conference opening

Hundreds of delegates walked out of the opening of the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam last night in protest when UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe took the stage.

kerrycullinan
July 24, 2018

Health

AIDS 2018: Focus on funds, rights and sex workers

The criminalisation of sex workers, injecting drug users and gay men in many countries battling to overcome HIV are key focuses of the International AIDS conference, which opens in Amsterdam tonight (23 July).

kerrycullinan
July 23, 2018

Health

UNAIDS head accused of plotting to dismantle agency

The international AIDS conference opens in Amsterdam tonight (23 July) amid a funding crisis for the epidemic, and a rumour that the Joint United Nations Agency on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) is on the brink of being closed.

kerrycullinan
July 23, 2018

Health

Helping ‘PrEP Shop Boys’ to get drugs

On the eve of the international AIDS conference in Amsterdam, a South African doctor and a Dutch AIDS activist explain how they smuggled HIV medicine from South Africa to Amsterdam in a nifty inversion of the usual foreign aid story.

kerrycullinan
July 23, 2018

News

Sub-Saharan Africa makes most progress against HIV – UNAIDS

Sub-Saharan Africa has made the most progress against HIV, cutting the rate of new infections by 30% in the past seven years in contrast to the global average of 18%.

kerrycullinan
July 18, 2018

Gender Based Violence

We launch Survivor’s Support Service to help rape survivors

Dial *134*334# to access a free and anonymous list of services in five languages for survivors of sexual violence, or visit our map to view and rate facilities across the country.

kerrycullinan
July 4, 2018

News

NHI: It’s not just about the money

While the public health system is desperately under-funded, money alone will not fix it. Yet this is the underlying assumption of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill, which serves to force the public and private health systems into a hasty marriage.

kerrycullinan
July 2, 2018

Health Systems

NHI: Hard to outlaw private healthcare

Despite government’s intention to introduce a single health system with compulsory contributions from all working South Africans, it may be impossible to outlaw private healthcare.

kerrycullinan
June 28, 2018

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