After her first unpleasant experience with antiretrovirals in 2001, this week Selinah Mashinini, speaks of how hope, faith, confidence and the love of her children made her try the medication one more time ' and she has never looked back.
A massive reduction in the price of antiretroviral drugs now makes it possible for South Africa to turn HIV/AIDS from a killer into a chronic, manageable disease.
Peter Busse loved a good party and played host to some of the greatest parties around. However, he didn't only love to play. He was also a renowned teacher on HIV and AIDS. And his passing on has left a void in the AIDS community.
Peter Busse, one of the first South Africans to openly declare his HIV status, died on Friday. Health-e News Service spoke to a few people whose lives Busse touched in many different ways.
The impact of South Africa's severe AIDS epidemic will continue to change society. But, how and along what lines? AIDS writer Hein Marais, grapples with these questions and tries to find answers in 'Buckling: The Impact of AIDS in South Africa'.
An after-school programme at Winnie Ngwekazi, a primary school in Pimville, some few metres away from the busy Old Potch Road linking the Soweto township with the major high-ways into Johannesburg, teaches youngsters about the harsh realities of life.
In Vulindlela, the pleasures an older man with money is able to give to a teenage girl come at a price: six times' greater risk of HIV.
This has been another confusing year for those trying to make sense of government's AIDS policy, thanks to the Minister of Health and her oddball connections.
Shelley Point, Stompneus Bay, Paternoster, Hopefield'¦place names that for many conjure up images of lazy holidays filled white beaches, blue sea, whale watching, surfing, crayfish and cold wine.
Less than 300 kilometres inland from the West Coast the environment changes from semi-dessert to lush vineyards where award-winning wine is produced and fruit trees strain under the weight of summer fruit.
Orphan grows up to take care of other orphans as support group manages to steer children from a life of crime.
Over one in 10 South Africans are living with HIV, with young African women living in informal settlements being most at risk of being infected.
At Nosihle's school, Izingolweni Primary School in the south of KwaZulu-Natal, one in ten children have lost one or both parents.
Despite being severely disabled, Goodman Vilakazi of Orange Farm has set up a literacy project to help the old and disabled in his community, and part of their syllabus is to about HIV/AIDS.
In a bid to inspire his young fans to follow his example, Springbok wing Ashwin Willemse announced this week that he had taken an HIV test.
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