Rape, murder charges for those who infect others with AIDS
Law experts are unlikely to recommend that government introduce HIV-specific laws to punish those who knowingly infect others.
Women dealt double blow at AIDS conference
The failure of a special vaginal gel to prevent sex workers from getting HIV means that condoms remain the world’s only protection against the disease during sex .
Cheap drug can save thousands of babies
Government was yesterday presented with evidence that it could save the lives of thousands of babies cheaply and effectively by giving their HIV positive mothers the drug Nevirapine during labour. The drug could cut the rate of HIV transmission from mother to child by about one third, meaning that only about 7% of babies born to HIV positive women would be infected at birth.
Mbeki under pressure from scientists
One of the world’s top scientists, Professor David Ho, yesterday begged President Mbeki to not to let his legacy be defined by inactivity on the human catastrophe of HIV/AIDS.
Rape, murder charges for those who infect others with AIDS
Law experts are unlikely to recommend that government introduce HIV-specific laws to punish those who knowingly infect others.
Famous parents talk about sex
Have you ever spoken to your children about sex?How should parents broach the subject of sex with their children? These and other questions were posed to a selected group of famous parents in South Africa. KERRY CULLINAN reports.
Mbeki sites poverty and not AIDS as biggest killer
Extreme poverty and not HIV/AIDS is the world’s biggest killer and the greatest cause of ill-health and suffering, President Thabo Mbeki told some 12 000 delegates at the opening of the13th world AIDS conference in Durban.
The impending catastrophe
Overall, at least 3.5 million South Africans are already infected with HIV, a disease for which there is no cure. The best case scenario predicts six million South Africans will be HIV positive in 10 years’ time.
Hlabisa: AIDS workers shift towards home-based care
With the prospect of tens of thousands of HIV positive people in its district needing medical help in the next few years, the tiny, 300-bed Hlabisa Hospital has turned its attention to encouraging people to care for terminally ill relatives at home.
AIDS patients die while government fails to support established projects
Despite the fact that state hospitals cannot afford to care for those dying of AIDS, government’s failure to work with non-governmental organisations is undermining volunteer home-care projects in KwaZulu-Natal. Over the past six months, Sinosizo, a home-based care organisation started by the Catholic Church, has closed its operations in the entire Western Region ‘ including Hammarsdale, Shongweni, Inchanga and the inner west.
Journalists, ethics and HIV/AIDS
It is death rather than renaissance that draws the foreign press to Africa. But where are the ethics that protect HIV/AIDS sufferers from unscrupulous journalists?
Speaking out to protect science
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.