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.
Nineteen-year-old Sanda Mlobi is one of millions of young South Africans who are at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. Sanda is HIV negative but her boyfriend died of an AIDS-related illness last year. She says her boyfriend would have never infected her with HIV because he always insisted on having safe sex even before he found out about his HIV status. Health-e News spoke to Sanda and asked her about the importance of condom use as a young person.
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.
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.
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.
After an exhilerating four months of restored health and high energy on antiretroviral therapy, chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign Zackie Achmat has had to face up to certain side effects and to change one of his drugs. He talks about how he's doing now and the long-term public health challenges of prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
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.
The first six months of antiretroviral therapy have forced AIDS activist Zackie Achmat to review his life.
Le ha baahi ba Lesotho ba ballwa ho dimilione tse 2.2 feela, mmuso wa naha eo o tshwenyehile haholo ha e le mona palo ya batho ba nang le tshwaetso ya HIV e batla e ata. Ba ballwa ho dipesente tse 31 batho ba nang le kokwana hloko ena. Ba mmalwa feela, ba ka eba dipesente tse hlano, ba kgonang ho ithekela meriana e thusang ho theola bohale ba HIV mmeleng wa mokudi. Empa, jwalo ka ha Health-e News Service e tlaleha, dintho di a fetoha ka ha e le mona mmuso wa Lesotho o qadile morero wa ho fumantsha bakudi meriana ena morao wa hore o fumane mpho ya tjhelete.
Motsaneng wa mahaeng wa Burgersfort moeding wa diprofense tsa Mpumalanga le Limpopo basadi ba ntshetsa maphelo a bona pele. Ditholwana tsa ho qala projekeng e ntjha motseng oo di bontsha hore hang ha basadi ba fumana monyetla wa ho iketsetsa tjhelete dikamano pakeng tsa bona le balekane ba bona e eba tse kgahlisang. Sephetho se seng ke hore matla a ho eba le tjhelete a thusa ho etsa qeto tse bolokehileng bakeng sa bophelo bo botle. Hona ho akaretsa le ho itshireletsa kgahlano le
kokwana-hloko ya HIV. Health-e News Service e a tlaleha.
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