Bill and Melinda Gates give $500 000 000 for AIDS
TORONTO ' Bill and Melinda Gates have boosted AIDS coffers on the eve of the world's biggest AIDS meeting with a U$500-million contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
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Flying service helps to restore sight
For 40 years, the SA Red Cross Air Mercy Service has been flying volunteer health professionals to rural hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal and the Northern Cape.
Micro-financing & HIV education
Living with AIDS # 271
Social conditions such as poverty and gender inequalities play a major role in driving the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Often, it is women who are at the mercy of such conditions. A unique pilot project in the remote villages of Limpopo and Mpumalanga is using micro-finance to intervene.
Living with AIDS # 271
Toronto: Time to Deliver
South Africa will be in the spotlight at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto when the merits of male circumcision come up for discussion.
‘We are called to action’
Living with AIDS # 270
In the face of HIV and AIDS, community-based caregivers are an invaluable asset. These men and women ' who often go without pay ' counsel, feed, clothe, wash and give hope to those with little, or no hope, at all. We meet one such dedicated soul.
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To cut or not to cut
Living with AIDS # 269
If on-going research does show that male circumcision can protect against HIV, it's inevitable that a campaign for access to circumcision will follow. But while every effort aimed at HIV prevention is welcome, common sense must prevail.
Living with AIDS # 269
Rath spreads his wings to the Eastern Cape
The Treatment Action Campaign is set to take up yet another volley in an attempt to stop the controversial vitamin seller Dr Matthias Rath. The Rath Foundation has been accused of promoting its vitamins as a cure for AIDS and encouraging HIV positive people to abandon their antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. TAC is considering lodging legal papers in the High Court to stop Dr Rath's campaign in the Eastern Cape. This report is in IsiXhosa.
Education sector ill-prepared for teachers and students with HIV
Education departments worldwide are ill-prepared to deal with teachers and children who are infected with HIV, according to UNAIDS report
Denying HIV ‘ until death
Living with AIDS # 267
Two decades of HIV and AIDS have come and gone. Yet, despite the availability of life-prolonging antiretroviral medication and more openness about AIDS, many HIV-positive people continue to die pitiful, secret-filled and lonely deaths. Why?
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Speaking with the blood lady Living with AIDS # 266
Nine years ago, Dr Loyiso Mpuntsha was rejected as a blood donor. Today she is the new Chief Executive Officer of the South African National Blood Service, the same organisation that did not want her blood ' solely because she is black.
HIV & pregnancy
Living with AIDS # 265
HIV-positive pregnant women are more likely to experience pregnancy-related complications than HIV-negative pregnant women. This is according to a study by Wits University's Department of Nursing Education.
Living with AIDS # 265
AIDS successes bring new challenges
Plenty of success stories were exchanged this week as beneficiaries from the world's biggest HIV/AIDS donor programme, the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar), met in Durban.
Running for life
A 44 - year old HIV positive mother - Emmelinah Sindane - is determined to get to the finishing line of today's Comrades Marathon [June 16] despite the odds. Sindane will be partaking in the marathon only for the second time. She spoke to Health-e about her personal triumph over her HIV status.
[This report is in IsiXhosa.]
AIDS programmes need to look beyond nurses and doctors
HIV/AIDS programmes in sub-Saharan Africa cannot be implemented by doctors and nurses alone if they are to expand to meet the treatment needs of citizens, according to Dr Mark Dybul, acting US Global AIDS Co-ordinator.
Lose the fore-skin, but enhance behaviour Living with AIDS # 262
A study conducted in Orange Farm, a settlement south of Johannesburg, shows that circumcised men are at a lower risk of contracting HIV. But, some researchers warn against the wholesale promotion of circumcision as a barrier against HIV infection.