In this audio feature we meet some of the people who seldom make the news headlines, but who make all the difference to those people who are bed-ridden with AIDS-related diseases.
Read More »Women who walk the extra mile
Living with AIDS – part 13 
A rape centre in Somerset West not only offers a refuge of kind words and practical care for women who'€™ve been raped, it also adheres to a strict code for the collection of forensic evidence which results in the conviction of many of the rapists. Kerry Cullinan reports.
Read More »Rape Centre helps convict rapists
Several short films about innovative health care projects won recognition at the the South African National Television and Video Association awards ceremony recently. Top honours went to "Hero of the Hills", a video about the Transnet Phelophepa train which has been delivering health care to remote communities for the past four years.
Read More »“Hero of the Hills” scoops film awardsThe impact of HIV/AIDS on the generation of young parents has resulted in many grandparents assuming responsibility for their orphaned grandchildren. Effective programmes of treatment and care would not only enable parents to live longer, healthier lives, they can also reduce the rate of mother to child transmission of HIV and ensure the birth of healthier children who do not need constant medical care.
Read More »Grandmother keeps family together
Living with AIDS # 12
Today (Dec1) paediatricians throughout the country are launching a protest campaign against government?s failure to fast-track plans to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.An estimated 200 HIV positive babies are born every day in South Africa, but this figure could be halved if all HIV positive mothers were given anti-retroviral drugs during pregnancy and labour. KERRY CULLINAN reports.
Read More »Paediatricians take on government
On World AIDS Day (Dec.1) paediatricians throughout the country launched a protest campaign against government'€™s failure to fast-track plans to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.An estimated 200 HIV positive babies are born every day in South Africa, but this figure could be halved if all HIV positive mothers were given anti-retroviral drugs during pregnancy and labour. KERRY CULLINAN reports.
Read More »Paediatricians take on government
Caring for the terminally ill with AIDS is emotionally taxing. Kerry Cullinan visits some carers in Daveyton
Read More »Sent home to die
An initiative, aimed at striking a balance between the need to sustain and conserve the natural medicinal plant resources and the growing demand for products from traditional healers, will be launched in Mpumalanga at the end of this month. ANSO THOM reports.
Read More »Balancing traditional medicine’s demands and conservation
Entering the gates of Luhlaza High School, the oasis of green spinach and buffalo grass bordering the entrance is in stark contrast to dusty and windswept Khayelitsha on the far side of the fence. Encouraged by her love for the environment, science and biology teacher Elizabeth Le Tape started the Luhlaza Environmental Club last year.
Read More »From dustbowl to oasis
Treatment Action Campaign chairperson, Zackie Achmat is often in the news. Most recently he made the headlines for importing a quantity of cheap, generic anti-retroviral drugs from Thailand. It was a deliberate act, calculated to show that access to affordable treatment is possible. But who is the man behind the political campaign, what motivates him and how does he feel about living with AIDS? SUE VALENTINE reports.
Read More »Living with AIDS – weekly audio series
Treatment Action Campaign chairperson Zackie Achmat has been both condemned and praised for smuggling cheap medicines into the country as part of his organisation's challenge to drug companies. ANSO THOM tries to find the person behind the controversy.
Read More »Zackie Achmat…openly gay, HIV positive, humanitarian, intensely private
South Africa has six times the number of very low birth weight babies than developed countries but there are more low birth weight babies born in the Western Cape than in other provinces. The Western Cape department of health is introducing "kangaroo care" as the preferred method of treating low-birth weight babies after research at Tygerberg Hospital showed the method reduced infant mortality and saved the hospital R1-million a year. Jo Stein reports
Read More »Caring for low-birth weight infants in the Western Cape will be kangaroo style
In early 1999, Sister Thulisiwe Luhabe sent in an anonymous blood sample of her own blood to the laboratory at the hospital where she worked because she suspected she might be HIV+. The test result confirmed her suspicions. Two years later, after successful treatment for TB, Sister Luhabe is more motivated than ever to share her knowledge of HIV with her patients.
Read More »Nurse with HIV is positive about her work
The overwhelming bulk of evidence presented on the second day of World Health Organisation's hearings into the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control called on the international health body to impose tough restrictions on the sale and marketing of tobacco.
Read More »Overwhelming call for global tobacco control
You don'€™t like condoms? Try this for size: 45% of South African adults will be infected by HIV within the next ten years. Jo Stein reports.
Read More »Try this for size
