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You don'€™t like condoms? Try this for size: 45% of South African adults will be infected by HIV within the next ten years. Jo Stein reports.
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Overwhelming call for global tobacco control
The overwhelming bulk of evidence presented on the second day of World Health Organisation's hearings into the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control called on the international health body to impose tough restrictions on the sale and marketing of tobacco.
Negative population growth due to AIDS now a possibility
It is now thought that the South African population will in all likelihood stop growing as a result of HIV/AIDS. High numbers of AIDS deaths will play a role, but so will the impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility. These are some of the population research findings reported at The Joint Population Conference held in Port Elizabeth recently. Jo Stein reports.
World grapples with tobacco control
The first ever hearings by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to adopt a convention to control tobacco products worldwide began in Geneva yesterday (Thursday). SUE VALENTINE reports.
Tobacco companies declare: smoking causes cancer
Tobacco giants Philip Morris and British American Tobacco both stated explicitly yesterday that nicotine is addictive and that smoking causes a variety of diseases. SUE VALENTINE reports.
Low muscle tone and young children
Three-year-old Alexander Heyns plays next to his mother at the physiotherapy centre, fitting shapes together into a box. "Look, mama, they are all in now," he says, blue eyes sparkling. "When he first came here, he would never do this," says his mother, Lynette. "He would come in shouting and charge around, touching everything. He found it difficult to focus."
Living with AIDS Programme 4
In this audio feature, a look at how the anti- AIDS Mother to Child Treatment programme works in Khayelitsha and meet one of the women who received AZT during her pregnancy.
Provinces delay on Nevirapine research
Concerns around the efficacy of the drug Nevirapine in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV causes delays in provinces responding to an October 1 deadline for identifying their own sites for testing. KERRY CULLINAN reports.
Checking your breasts often could save your life
Statistics from the Cancer Association of SA (Cansa) show that one in every 36 women in South Africa has breast cancer, now the most common cancer among South African women. ANSO THOM reports.
HIV causes AIDS
Two organisations, both representing South African doctors and specialists, have in the past week come out in support of the widely accepted and scientifically proven theory that HIV causes AIDS.
Living with AIDS Programme 2 (September 28, 2000)
This week, in our weekly feature on HIV/AIDS, the World Bank has completed new research on the impact of HIV/AIDS on South African society. Sue Valentine reports.
Living with AIDS Programme 3 (October 5, 2000)
In this week's programme, we visit the Mother to Child Treatment (MTCT) programme in Khayelitsha. The MTCT programme is not only proving successful in helping pregnant women prevent the transmission of HIV to their babies, but is also having a significant impact on how people understand and respond to the HIV/AIDS.
Growing our human potential
"The success the world has had in protecting children'€™s rights and realising human potential is captured far more eloquently in flesh and bone than in concrete or steel, far more tellingly in the height of children than that of skyscrapers."
A to Z of cholera
What is cholera, how is it transmitted, what can be done to prevent its spread? This summary answers all your questions about the disease.
Violence is what we teach our children shows Birth to Ten study
The Birth to Ten study in Johannesburg is one of the biggest and longest running studies of child health and development world-wide. The study suggests that while poverty in itself does not make for maladapted children, violence has extremely damaging psychological effects. Jo Stein reports