It is impossible not to notice how thin Feroza Mohamed is. The several layers of clothing she wears fails to protect her frail and disease-ridden 27-year-old body from the Highveld winter. Mother of six-year-old Ismail, Mohamed arrived at Nkosi'€™s Haven, in December - HIV positive, destitute, shunned by her Muslim family and three months'€™ pregnant. Nkosi'€™s Haven is a Johannesburg shelter for HIV positive mothers and their children.
Read More » Destitute Feroza finds a place to dieWith 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.
Read More » Hlabisa: AIDS workers shift towards home-based careDespite 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.
Read More » AIDS patients die while government fails to support established projects
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?
Read More » Journalists, ethics and HIV/AIDS
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.
Read More » Speaking out to protect science
The red ribbon pinned to his windbreaker is the first thing you notice. Then the wide smile, the huge, deep-sunken eyes and his incredibly frail body. Nkosi Johnson (11), touted for many years by the media as one of the longest HIV survivor in the country, is ill.
Read More » Nkosi not yet ready to go to heaven
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.
Read More » Speaking out to protect science
If there were such a title, thirty-something Salim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim would be South Africa'€™s "first couple" of HIV/AIDS research.
Read More » AIDS’ first couple – a formidable team
It's like putting a man on the moon. They believed and knew they could do it. We believe and there is a firm scientific conviction that a vaccine against AIDS will be developed." Dr Walter Prozesky, the driving force behind South Africa's effort to find an AIDS vaccine, speaks this with "firm conviction".
Read More » The man behind South Africa’s AIDS vaccine
Bongani Khumalo responds well to causes. From the South African Council of Churches, the Red Cross, the South African National Men's Forum which he founded, "to inculcate responsible behaviour among men", to Deputy Chief Executive at Eskom where he was responsible for restructuring and transformation, Bongani Khumalo is a committed to causes.
Read More » Committed to the cause of fighting HIV/AIDSPresident Thabo Mbeki'€™s controversial AIDS review panel meets tomorrow (Mon 3 July) for a second and final time, but insiders describe the body as having been a waste of time and money.Government has said that the panel -- which brought together 33 international experts including "dissidents" who do not believe that HIV causes AIDS '€“ will cost it R2-million of taxpayers'€™ money.
Read More » AIDS panel ‘a waste of money’There are five key reasons why the HIV/AIDS epidemic is so rampant in South Africa, according to co-convenor of the 13th World AIDS Conference, Jerry Coovadia.
Read More » Why AIDS has hit SA so hardWhile government make final preparations to host the final meeting of President Thabo Mbeki'€™s international AIDS panel, tasked with discussing the link between HIV and AIDS and anti-HIV therapies, UNAIDS has revealed that South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS (4,2-million).
Read More » Presidential AIDS Panel to meet next week
An article by Kerry Cullinan published in The Star, June/ July 2000.
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?
Read More » Journalists, ethics and HIV/AIDSBristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) has denied allegations by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) that the U$100-million HIV/Aids grant made by the pharmaceutical giant last year to five southern African countries, including South Africa, was an attempt to "silence the voice of affordable medicine".
Read More » Silencing the voice of affordable medicine