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‘I am a woman trapped in a man’s body. People ask me whether I am a woman and I answer, no. I have no feelings to women, I prefer relationships with men.’
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South Africa continues to have high HIV infection rates among the 15 to 24 year old pregnant women and increasingly so among the 10 to 14 year olds, the latest Government antenatal survey has revealed.
Government’s new five-year plan to address HIV is based on a few big, proven interventions aimed at maximum impact rather than a shopping list of small ideas. The National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2012 – 2016, to be launched in Port Elizabeth today (1 Dec), will cost in the region of R131-billion.
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The early treatment of people with HIV massively reduces their infectiousness and gives the world our first real opportunity to halt the HIV epidemic.
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Working up the courage to discuss your sex life with a health worker is challenging at the best of times. For men who have sex with men and transgender women, it’s simply too tough to contemplate and many of them simply decline seeking healthcare or delay until it is too late. A clinic in Cape Town is changing that.
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CAPE TOWN – Heroin addict, cocaine addict, crystal methaphetamine (Tik) addict, drug dealer, teenage prostitute, porn actor, HIV-positive by 15, TV star, you name it, Zack Smit has pretty much been there, done that.
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In a huge blow to HIV prevention, a major trial of a vaginal gel expected to protect women was stopped on Friday (25 Nov) after it was found to have no effect on preventing HIV. This result was unexpected and contradicted an earlier trial of the same vaginal gel, called a microbicide, containing the antiretroviral tenofovir.
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OPINION: December 1, 2011 is an enormously significant date for all South Africans. On that day, World AIDS Day, the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) will launch the new and finalized 2012-2016 National Strategic Plan for HIV, STIs and TB, which has been developed over the last year.
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OPINION: HIV is spread through promiscuity. So goes the popular wisdom. What if this is wrong? By Francois Venter.
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OPINION: HIV treatment centres for children generally take good care of their young patients’ physical well-being but they do not to help children to know, and come to terms with, their HIV status. By Mandla Nyuswa.
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In the past two years, South Africa has made significant investment in combatting HIV and ‘the impact is beginning to show’, according to the UNAIDS report.
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Premier Helen Zille is once more raising the spectre of criminalising HIV transmission. This is an old debate. In 2001, the South African Law Reform Commission considered the matter and concluded that current legislation is sufficient to deal with intentional transmission of HIV.