OPINION: A whirlybird is a wind-driven roof turbine. We’€™ve all seen them. They dot the roofs of expansive warehouses. They aid circulation in modern bourgeois apartments on Knysna’€™s Thesen Island. They sit on the smell-stacks of non-descript out-houses in our townships on the periphery of our cities. By Dalli Weyers.

TB is a difficult ‘€œbugger’€ making it tough for scientists to develop drugs, diagnostics and vaccines to control the epidemic.

Alcohol and drug abuse as well as drug trafficking will receive renewed and more energetic attention from government, President Jacob Zuma announced this week.

A University of Stellenbosch computer scientist has been honoured for his contribution to better understanding HIV.

OPINION: As a parent, educator and citizen of this country, I am pleased with the aggressive approach adopted by our government in its campaign against HIV and AIDS, especially amongst learners in our schools. What I find rather disturbing, however, is the plan by government to introduce HIV testing in schools, without thorough preparation. Are the schools ready for the HIV testing of their learners? By Misheck Ndebele.

OPINION: The Director of the Children’s Rights Centre addresses children’€™s rights in the context of HIV. By Cati Vawda.

OPINION: For too long the debate about HIV testing and human rights has largely focused on the implications of the former for the latter: how testing has the potential to undermine rights. Given the experiences of many people living with HIV, this is understandable: many have lost ‘€“ or been denied ‘€“ jobs; insurance policies have been denied routinely; access to health care services has often been limited. By Jonathan Berger