Global Fund delay costs lives
Squabbling over who should control the fund money delays SA grants yet again.
Kerry Cullinan
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Global Fund money finally gets into SA
The South African government and the Global Fight to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) finally ended their 18-month stand-off this week, opening the door for three multi-million rand grants from the fund to enter the country. By Kerry Cullinan.
Over 55 KZN teachers died every month in 2000
Research reveals a 70% increase in deaths of female teachers between the ages of 30 and 34 in one year.
Counting the tea leaves: Business gets real about the cost of AIDS
Boston researchers compare the outputs of healthy tea workers and those dying of AIDS and, in a painstakingly thorough story, document what the epidemic is costing Kenyan tea estates in lost tea leaves.
The high costs of private health
Various legislative changes aimed at get the private sector to take on more public health patients have been undermined by high medical inflation
43 percent of community service doctors plan to leave SA
Young doctors seem to assume that, after a year's service, they have 'done their duty' and can seek out greener pastures overseas.
Dying with dignity
Hospital opens palliative care ward to facilitate peaceful deaths.
Does anyone know the tune?
Government's HIV/AIDS policy is characterised by confusion and public relations blunders.
Anti-retroviral lessons
Small projects offering anti-retroviral treatment have been set up countrywide. But there is need for co-ordination. Kerry Cullinan reports.
Help for people taking anti-retroviral drugs
Anti-retroviral drugs are becoming more accessible to people living with HIV through workplace programmes and research projects being set up countrywide. The drugs can't cure HIV but they can stop the virus from growing in your body, thus giving your body's immune system a chance to recover.
AIDS the year in review
The world's most powerful weapon against HIV/AIDS -- anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs ' dominated public debate about the disease in South Africa this year. By Kerry Cullinan.
AIDS Stigma
Busi has been too weak to get out of bed for the past two months. Her tiny eight-month-old baby, Nomsa, hangs limply in her listless arms. Even crying takes too much effort. Her home-based carer changes the sheets, which are streaked yellow with diarrhoea. She asks Busi's mother how she is coping, but the mother shrugs and turns away so that we cannot see her tears. Five small children turn their worried faces towards us. "AIDS is not spoken about here," whispers the carer in warning, as I prepare to interview Busi.