Mentor mums for pregnant HIV+ women
In a first for South Africa, a national PMTCT (Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission) hotline, manned by HIV positive women who are part of the mothers2mothers (m2m) organization, has been launched.
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Task team to turnaround Soweto hospital
A task team has been sent to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, charged with implementing a turnaround strategy, following news reports of newborn babies at the Soweto hospital placed in cardboard boxes because of a shortage of cribs.
Lack of AIDS policy endangers prisoners Living with AIDS # 324
Continuing with our theme from last week, today we hear that the prison system fails to deliver even the most basic tools to protect male prisoners from HIV infection.
Sex & sexual violence in prison Living with AIDS # 323
Sex and sexual violence are common in the South African male prison community. Yet efforts aimed at reducing the violence and addressing HIV prevention are lacking.
Some prefer death over testing
Despite long-running AIDS awareness campaigns by the government, non-governmental organizations and other civil society groupings, a great number of people still prefer to die a silent death than to go for an HIV test.
What does it mean to be a man? Living with AIDS # 322
The manner in which some men conduct themselves in relationship matters has led to questions being asked, such as: What does it really mean to be a man? Their actions have resulted in many women using words like unfaithful, abusive, sexually reckless and immoral to describe the male species in general. A Johannesburg varsity lecturer has made this question a subject of research.
Rural under-development hampers AIDS interventions Living with AIDS # 321
Lack of exposure to information, beliefs deeply rooted in tradition as well as poverty make community mobilisation around HIV and AIDS in rural Tzaneen a difficult task.
Major AIDS vaccine update
Over 600 participants have been enrolled into the HVTN 503 vaccine trial, said to be the 'largest AIDS vaccine trial' to be ever conducted on the continent.
‘Normal death’
'You need to come. We are drowning in orphans,' read the e-mail to Health-e News Service from Sally Duigan, head of the Tzaneen Diocese's response to HIV/AIDS for many years.
Rural schools shoulder AIDS burden
Rural schools are bearing the brunt of the AIDS epidemic as orphan numbers swell, few families can pay school fees and children increasingly rely on the school feeding scheme as their sole meal
Child sanctuary ‘bursting at the seams’
The middle-aged woman struts down the dusty road, ducks beneath a mango tree and weaves her way through colourful playground equipment.
A denim skirt flutters around her ankles, the ever present mountains from which she often draws spiritual strength, form a dramatic backdrop to the setting for Holy Family Care Centre at Ofcolaco.
‘Many, many orphans’
A wide grin peeks out from under the woman's floppy, red sunhat as Jeaneth Shirindzi puts her arm around the shy woman's neck and draws her closer. 'This is one of my patients who are on ARVs,' Shirindzi proclaims proudly, herself sporting a less flashy navy-blue sunhat.
Teaching in the time of AIDS Living with AIDS # 320
Three teachers from different schools that are miles apart in rural Tzaneen share one thing in common: having to deal with growing numbers of learners who have no parents.
A home of hope Living with AIDS # 319
In what was once a productive farming area of Calais, a deep rural village of Tzaneen in Limpopo, a Catholic missionary property abandoned for over a decade is now home to over 80 orphaned and sick children.
NSP targets not only government targets – Mseleku
The National Strategic Plan (NSP) target to place another 120 000 adults and 70 000 children on antiretrovirals by the end of the year was not simply a government matter, Health department Director-General Thami Mseleku told journalists yesterday.