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In Sub-Saharan Africa, teenage girls are five times more likely to be infected by HIV/AIDS than boys, according to UNAIDS figures. In South Africa, one third of all babies are born to mothers under 19 years of age. The South African Schools Act guarantees the right to education for all children up to the age of seven to eighteen. This includes girls who become pregnant whilst still at school.
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August is women’s month and Health-e spoke to one of South Africa’€™s most celebrated women Dr Mamphele Ramphele, medical doctor, activist, anthropologist, the first black female vice chancellor of a South African university (University of Cape Town) and now one of four managing directors at the World Bank. She said while women have much to celebrate this month, enormous challenges still remain, especially in the face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
She has dominated news headlines for the past four years and is undoubtedly one of the most controversial members of the cabinet. But who is Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang?
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Treatment Action Campaign chairperson Zackie Achmat has started antiretroviral therapy but lives with the guilt of having access to the life-prolonging drugs while fellow South Africans wait for the roll-out of ARVs in the public health setor.
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South Africa is on the brink of introducing anti-retroviral (ARV) medication in the public health sector. One of the major challenges is how to ensure adequate delivery of these drugs within existing infastructures. Dr Peter Barron, the Director of the Initiative for Sub District Support (ISDS) of the Health Systems Trust, argues that we must have a national ARV programme, but cautions that we have to do it right.
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I’ve been in this Envoy role for just over two years. The issues related to the pandemic ebb and flow, but remain much the same — care, prevention, treatment, stigma, discrimination, gender, orphans, leadership — they all continue to reverberate, unceasingly, as we struggle to overcome HIV/AIDS.
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I am deeply honoured to be able to join you today at the opening of the South African AIDS Conference, on behalf of the South African Government and as Chairperson of the South African National AIDS Council.
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Health-e News Service will be webcasting the plenary sessions of the South African AIDS conference in Durban from August 3-6, 2003.
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Follow proceedings at the 2nd International AIDS Society Conference in Paris from July 13 to 16 online courtesy of http://www.kaisernetwork.org – a free online health policy news and information service of the Kaiser Family Foundation. The Scientific Programme of the 2nd IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment is planned to provide new insights into HIV disease that can lead to new research directions, help speed translational research and move advances into clinical practice. Webcasts will be available of all conference plenaries as well as selected sessions.
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A debate around compulsory HIV testing of miners is set to shake the mining industry in the coming months, raising concerns around discrimination versus the protection of miners if their HIV status is known. By Khopotso Bodibe and Nawaal Deane.
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With a budget of R92 million, Khomanani, government’€™s HIV/AIDS communication campaign is due to end in three months. Was it public money well spent?
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The historic uprising by the youth in Soweto in June 1976 was sparked by, among other things, the imposition of Afrikaans as teaching language in township schools. Today the youth of the new South Africa face different challenges, the most urgent being HIV/AIDS. June is national youth month and the National Youth Commission has embarked a campaign to highlight the many issues that affect the young including unemployment that stands at around 40 percent. Thandeka Teyise of Health-e News Service spoke to Liziwe Konyana, Deputy Director for Communication at the National Youth Commission, about its strategy to help combat the spread of HIV/AIDS and why the commission has chosen to focus on poverty and development.