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Children have rights too says Dikwankwetla (Children in Action). Eight members of the group from around the country drew on their own life experiences when they told Parliament’€™s Social Development Portfolio Committee what they believe should be included in the Children’€™s Bill.
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Faith communities often associate HIV infection with sexual immorality and sin. But what does it matter how one is infected? Health-e News explores this question with three ministers of religion who live openly with HIV.
Parliament is hearing submissions on the Children’€™s Bill this week. Among those appearing before the Social Development Portfolio Committee is a group of children known as Dikwankwetla, or Children in Action, who made submissions based on their concerns.
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Veteran ANC leader Albertina Sisulu’€™s only dream is to get help for the needy, especially AIDS orphans. The 86-year old great grandmother says HIV and AIDS is an alarming problem, which is taking its toll on communities, but it is not the first pandemic to challenge society.
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Rushed in as a last minute substitute speaker for the Minister of Health, the head of the national health department’s HIV/AIDS cluster, Dr Rose Mulumba, has told students that prohibitive costs were the reason for the long delay in providing antiretroviral treatment in the public health sector.
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Reverend Christo Greyling, HIV/AIDS advisor for World Vision in Africa, speaks further with Health-e News about how he has lived with HIV for 20 years and how living with the virus has affected his relationship with his wife of 16 years who remains HIV negative.
Half of the country’€™s nurses are working in private hospitals and some 42 000 posts are vacant. HIV/AIDS is worsening the distribution of health personnel around the country. These are some of the findings of the 2004 South African Health Review.
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How does a 23 year-old Theology student admit to his fiancé and his church that he is HIV positive? That was Reverend Christo Greyling’€™s dilemma in 1987 when he was diagnosed with HIV. Health-e News Service spoke with him about how he’€™s lived with HIV all this time. This is the first of two parts of Rev. Greyling’€™s story.
Overburdened and under-resourced, William Slater Centre is the only public institution of its kind that helps problem teens in the Western Cape.
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The 15th International AIDS Conference might be over but the fight against HIV/AIDS will be with us for many years. Health-e talked to delegates from South Africa, France, Tanzania and United States and asked them their views about the conference.
HIV/AIDS and lifestyle diseases are the chief causes of death among South Africans, doctors and nurses continue to leave the country and health spending is not keeping pace with what is needed. All in all, we’€™re not looking too healthy.
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More than 20 years into the AIDS epidemic and UNAIDS estimates that worldwide some 38 million people are living with HIV. AIDS has killed an estimated 20 million people. At the closure of the 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel pleaded with world leaders, politicians and the business community to combat the epidemic.