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Despite long-running AIDS awareness campaigns by the government, non-governmental organizations and other civil society groupings, a great number of people still prefer to die a silent death than to go for an HIV test.
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The manner in which some men conduct themselves in relationship matters has led to questions being asked, such as: What does it really mean to be a man? Their actions have resulted in many women using words like unfaithful, abusive, sexually reckless and immoral to describe the male species in general. A Johannesburg varsity lecturer has made this question a subject of research.
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A new therapeutic AIDS vaccine trial designed to slow progression to full-blown AIDS is underway.
Marie Stopes has been a granted an interim order allowing it to continue offering termination of pregnancy services in the Western Cape until a dispute with the Western Cape health department comes before the court in February next year.
The Cape High Court will today hear an urgent application by Marie Stopes clinics alleging that the actions of the Western Cape Provincial Department of Health have put women’s right to access terminations of pregnancy under threat.
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Lack of exposure to information, beliefs deeply rooted in tradition as well as poverty make community mobilisation around HIV and AIDS in rural Tzaneen a difficult task.
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Over 600 participants have been enrolled into the HVTN 503 vaccine trial, said to be the ‘largest AIDS vaccine trial’ to be ever conducted on the continent.
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The ‘grandfather’ of AIDS, Reuben Sher passed away on Monday morning following post surgery complications.
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‘You need to come. We are drowning in orphans,’ read the e-mail to Health-e News Service from Sally Duigan, head of the Tzaneen Diocese’s response to HIV/AIDS for many years.
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Rural schools are bearing the brunt of the AIDS epidemic as orphan numbers swell, few families can pay school fees and children increasingly rely on the school feeding scheme as their sole meal
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The middle-aged woman struts down the dusty road, ducks beneath a mango tree and weaves her way through colourful playground equipment. A denim skirt flutters around her ankles, the ever present mountains from which she often draws spiritual strength, form a dramatic backdrop to the setting for Holy Family Care Centre at Ofcolaco.
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A wide grin peeks out from under the woman’s floppy, red sunhat as Jeaneth Shirindzi puts her arm around the shy woman’s neck and draws her closer. ‘This is one of my patients who are on ARVs,’ Shirindzi proclaims proudly, herself sporting a less flashy navy-blue sunhat.