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Volunteering is no longer just for those with time and money to spare, it can be a major social force and will become a necessity in order to care for people with HIV/AIDS, says the director of The Volunteer Centre in Cape Town, Joan Daries.
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The Compensation Commissioner’s Office has been strongly criticised for the time it takes to settle workers’ occupational health claims. Some say this is the fault of companies that obstruct the commission’s work, but regardless of where the blame lies, it is workers like Derick Wolfaardt who suffer the consequences. Jo Stein reports.
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The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) is heading for a showdown with the government if it does not approve the use of Nevirapine to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV. The question of giving Nevirapine to pregnant women is on the agenda for the next MINMEC meeting on August 12 when the Minister of Health, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is scheduled to meet with the provincial MECs for health.
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Ella and Paul Hartley’s lifestyle characterises the lifestyle of many South African middle-class whites. Their neat small home is in Sasolburg’s suburbia. They have three children. He works, she is a housewife and they have two pet dogs. By Cecelia Russel.
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Gail Johnson adopted Nkosi Johnson when he was three years old. Despite being HIV positive, Nkosi is now eleven. Nkosi dreamed the other night that a voice told him he must die. When Gail asked him if he wanted to die, Nkosi said, “No, not yet.” “Well then,” replied Gail, “We’ve got to fight.”
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Brett Anderson never thought he had contracted HIV. “I was as sick as a dog but I never thought of HIV despite having all the symptoms. It never crossed my mind. It simply wasn’t real to me. Now, it’s in my blood. It’s part of my life,” says the 28-year-old Capetonian.
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DURBAN – If access to HIV treatment does not exist, should government’s promote voluntary testing and counselling among its citizens? This was one of the issues debated at the AIDS 2000 conference this week.
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The French wing of the international AIDS activist group, Act UP, disrupted conference proceedings during a presentation by the director of WHO.
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A partnership between professors from Oxford University and Nairobi University has produced Africa’s first AIDS vaccine, which is set to begin human trials in August.
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It’s like putting a man on the moon. They believed and knew they could do it. We believe and there is a firm scientific conviction that a vaccine against AIDS will be developed.” Dr Walter Prozesky, the driving force behind South Africa’s effort to find an AIDS vaccine, speaks this with “firm conviction”.
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If there were such a title, thirty-something Salim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim would be South Africa’s “first couple” of HIV/AIDS research.
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Professor Hoosen “Jerry” Coovadia used to be a draw-card speaker at anti-apartheid rallies. Yet today he finds himself at odds with the very democratic government he fought so hard to install over its HIV/AIDS policy.