AIDS activists have accused US President George Bush of hampering HIV prevention campaigns.

A new brand of government condoms called '€˜Choice'€™, has entered the market to replace the old condom with its plain packaging and AIDS ribbons stamped on the wrapping. The re-launch was necessary after the old government unbranded condoms failed to strike the right chord with the public. As Health-e discovered, there'€™s much more to condom usage than merely providing protection.

In the last Living with AIDS feature, we heard Nonhlanhla Kubheka'€™s views on South Africa'€™s turbulent journey to the era of AIDS treatment. This week, she tells just how her health has started failing her.

Tlalehong e sa tswa feta ya Living with AIDS, re utlwile ka maikutlo a Nonhlanhla Kubheka ha a bua ka leeto leo Afrika Borwa e le tsamaileng ho tla fihla mothating ona moo batho ba nang le tshwaetso ya Phamokathe ba fumantshwang meriana e kokobetsang matal a kokwana hloko ya HIV. Bekeng ena re utlwa ka moo Nonhlanhla yena a seng a qadile ho kula ka tshwaetso ena.

This time last year, Nonhlanhla Kubheka, a 40-something year-old single mother of two, was among those urging government to provide treatment for those people living with HIV/AIDS. Health-e News Service spoke with Nonhlanhla Kubheka and looks at how far we'€™ve come.

Ngwahola ka yona nako ena, Nonhlanhla Kubheka, a dilemo tse ka nnqane ho 40 a bile e le mme wa bana ba ba babedi, e ne e le wa ba bang ba etsang ditletlebo ho mmuso hore o fumantshe batho ba kulang ka Phamokathe meriana e mona e fokotsang matla a tshwaetso ya kokwana hloko ya HIV. Mona re buisana le yena ho fumana maikutlio a hae ka leeto leo Afrika Borwa e e tsamaileng ho tla fihla mothating ona moo meriana ena e seng e fumaneha.

Tuesday last week was International Children'€™s Day. It was also the day on which we heard the news that government had instructed all provinces that had begun implementing an HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Plan to stop enrolling any more children for treatment. Health-e News Service takes a look at the supply of antiretroviral drugs in the public health sector.

Support from friends and family can make all the difference to people living with HIV/AIDS. Lulu Sibam, who together with her husband and child is now on ARV therapy, speaks warmly of the encouraging role played by her family and parents-in-law.

How do you get people to change their sexual behaviour so that they are not at risk of getting HIV/AIDS? Not by simply giving them the "right" information and assuming that they will modify what they do.

Lulu Sibam is a young mother from Khayelitsha. Her husband and child Mihle have been on antiretroviral therapy since December 2001. Lulu first started treatment in 2003 but dropped out of the Medecins Sans Frontieres programme. She has since re-started her therapy and together with her family is doing well.

South African health officials have been placed on alert following the first polio case in neighbouring Botswana in 13 years.

Ha bongata ba batho dinaheng tse borwa tsa Afrika bo qetwa ke Phamokathe, mmuso wa naha ya Lesotho o tlaleha hore lefu lena le se le hlodile dikgutsana tse ka nnqane ho 73 000. Mokgatlo wa matjhaba wa UNICEf o re ka selemo sa 2010, kontinente ya Afrika ka bophara, e ka lebella ho eba lehae ho dikgutsana tse dimilione tse 41 ka baka la lefu la Phamokathe. Re ile ra etela naha e nyenyane ya Lesotho ho ya iponela ka moo lefu lena le amohang bana batswadi.

As the AIDS epidemic continues to decimate the adult population in southern Africa, the Lesotho government reports that more than 73 000 of its children have been orphaned as a result of the epidemic. A UNICEF report predicts that by 2010 there will be over 41 million orphans in Africa as a whole. In this report we visit Lesotho and discover how AIDS is robbing children of their parents.