How anti-retroviral drugs work
A brief description of how anti-retroviral drugs work.
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Taking the tablets
What it'€™s like to take antiretroviral therapy, how many pills are needed and why taking them regularly and consistently is so important.
Read More » Taking the tabletsPrivate sector vs public sector
Where is the best place to take antiretrovirals '€“ with a private doctor or through the public sector? Many would argue the public sector is more efficient and effective.
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A judge for lifeLiving with AIDS #144
As the government-appointed task team on AIDS treatment works towards its end of September deadline, Health-e takes a look at what antiretroviral drugs mean to people already taking them. In the first of two parts, Justice Edwin Cameron talks about his experience of living with AIDS and six years on anti-retroviral therapy.
Read More » A judge for lifeLiving with AIDS #144A journey to health
Buyiswa Gcwabe is a mother of seven children and has AIDS. She is a member of the Treatment Action Campaign and is among the first group of 25 people to receive antiretroviral treatment funded by the TAC. Health-e travelled with her to her first appointment with the doctor who will monitor her treatment.
Read More » A journey to healthTAC launches treatment plan
The Treatment Campaign Action has launched the "Treatment Project" to provide antiretroviral drugs to its most needy members. For each TAC member on ARV therapy, a non-TAC member who needs the life-prolonging drugs will be treated. Some 110 TAC members have died from AIDS related illnesses between March and July this year alone.
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Explaining ARV therapy
Not everyone who is HIV positive needs antiretroviral therapy. Dr Khwezi Matoti runs the AIDS clinic at the Guguletu Day Hospital and explains when antiretroviral drugs become necessary.
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Achmat speaks of survival guilt
Treatment Action Campaign chairperson Zackie Achmat has started antiretroviral therapy but lives with the guilt of having access to the life-prolonging drugs while fellow South Africans wait for the roll-out of ARVs in the public health setor.
Read More » Achmat speaks of survival guiltYouth sick and tired of domestic violence
A group of Guguletu youth some victims of domestic violence and some affected by it say the government should put harsher punishment to perpetrators of rape, women and children abuse. National Adolescent Friendly Clinic Intiative '€˜s Sbongile Pilane and his peers all adolescent are trying to make change to thousands of other youth in their township educating them about their sexual rights and prevention of HIV/AIDS. Thandeka Teyise spoke to the youth asking them their views on domestic violence.
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