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Some 60 000 fewer people died of AIDS last year than in 2005, thanks mainly to the country’€™s antiretroviral treatment campaign.
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OPINION: South Africa’€™s HIV/AIDS National Strategic Plan for health has two objectives ‘€“ reducing the incidence of new HIV infections by half and placing 80% of those in need onto anti-retroviral treatment. As a country, we are making some progress in scaling up our national HIV treatment programmes, but concurrently we need to maintain the status of those that are HIV negative. By Joanne Brink.
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African countries need to take steps to monitor and prevent the spread of drug-resistant HIV. This was the warning from researchers at the annual conference on retroviruses in Boston last week.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) has questioned why two drugs companies are to receive millions of dollars in a vaccine deal being branded as a huge breakthrough for poor countries.
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Jonathan Berger of SECTION27 delivered a lecture on the history of HIV in SA at the CROI meeting in Boston this week. Read it here.
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Hundreds of religious leaders across the globe are living with HIV, yet are afraid to come out because of the stigma attached to it. INERELA is a network of religious leaders across the globe which gives support to faith-based communities who are afraid to talk about HIV due to the stigma.
SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign welcome the increased budget for health, but expressed certain concerns.
CAPE TOWN – South Africa’€™s world-class government policies are failing to reach poor children on the margins, according to child experts.
Children and pregnant women should avoid using cell phones, cordless phones and other wireless devices.
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Students have shown a willingness to get tested for HIV and say that it is important for everyone to know their status so that if need be, people can start treatment earlier. This follows the launch of the ‘€˜First things first’€™ HIV Counselling and Testing Campaign targeting first year tertiary level students around the country.
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A Gauteng man who won a case of discrimination and unfair dismissal against his former employers in the Labour Court, in Johannesburg, says he hopes the ruling will encourage other HIV-positive people who are being discriminated against by their employers to come forward. The court ruled in his favour yesterday, stating that he was unfairly dismissed by his employer because of his HIV status.
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In a decisive move to encourage as many South Africans as possible to know their HIV status, the Health Department is now taking its HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign to young people at high school level. Parliament has approved the proposal and the department says the development of a policy for school-based HIV testing is now advanced.