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‘€œHo entswe ke Modimo’€

Mehleng ena, Natalia Baloyi o ena le lebaka la ho bososela. Pale ya hae ke e supisang hore le ha ho ka eba boima jwang, katleho e tla finyelleha ha feela motho o ena le tshepo le maikemisetso. Lemong tse ka bang tharo tse fetileng, a ena le dilemo tse 22, Natalia o ne a sa sebetse, a bile a hlokomela lelapa labo la dikgaitsedi tse tharo le ngwana e mong eo e leng wa hae. Sena ka mora hore batswadi ba hae ba hlokahale ka mora hore ba kule. Ho hopolwa hore ba nkuwa ke lefu la Phamokathe. Ka mora lemo tsena Health-e News Service e boela e etela Natalia motseng wa habo wa Marironi, Tzaneen, Limpopo.
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W.Cape’s rapid response

In the space of five years, the Western Cape has set up prevention of mother-to-child treatment sites throughout the province as well as providing antiretroviral treatment on a limited basis. Health-e asked the head of the AIDS Programme in the Western Cape, Dr. Fareed Abdullah to share the lessons they'€™ve learned over the past 10 years.
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A decade of AIDS

In the 10 years since our first democratic election in 1994, the HIV prevalence rate among pregnant women has risen from 7.6 percent to 26.5 percent. Ignorance, fear and prejudice have defined the reponse to HIV/AIDS in many countries and South Africa has been no different. However, a key organisation that has emerged to defend the rights of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS is the Treatment Action Campaign. Health-e looks at how activists have risen to the challenge.
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Business failing in AIDS response Living with AIDS # 161

Results from a recent survey by the South African Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (SABCOHA) and the Bureau for Economic Research show that most companies have failed to respond to the epidemic. Only a quarter of the 1006 companies surveyed have implemented a workplace policy on HIV/AIDS, and even less have a Voluntary Counselling and Testing programme, or provide care, treatment and support for infected workers.
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Hazards of interrupted ARV supply Living with AIDS

Three young South African AIDS patients recently missed essential doses of their antiretroviral drugs after the supplier, Merck Sharp & Dohme ran out of stocks. The pharmaceutical giant ran out of its 50 mg tablet of Efavirenz, or Stocrin, one of the principle AIDS medicines for children aged three and older. A serious consequence of such shortages is that resistance to the particular drug can develop if patients interrupt their treatment. Furthermore, irregular drug supplies could jeopardise the government's imminent roll-out of an HIV and AIDS treatment plan.
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Everybody’€™s business and everybody’€™s faultLiving with AIDS # 155

While HIV and AIDS is a condition that still strikes fear among many people, developments in medical, scientific and social sciences research communities over the last few years have helped to change perceptions. HIV and AIDS can be a manageable and treatable condition. That is the thrust of a new book: '€œStill Everybody'€™s Business'€, published by insurance group, Metropolitan.
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