WHO wants 500 000 on treatment in SA
The World Health Organisation has high expectations of what South Africa'€™s care and treatment plan for HIV/AIDS can mean for encouraging other African countries to introduce similar programmes.
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TAC appeals to AIDS conference
The Treatment Action Campaign was given a key platform at the XV International AIDS Conference to address delegates on the confusion regarding the South African health department'€™s position on the use of nevirapine.
MCC says no disruption to MTCT progamme
The Medicines Control Council has said that it did not foresee any disruption to the mother to child prevention HIV programme in South Africa in the light of the announcement that the antiretroviral drug nevirapine was not recommended as a single treatment
AIDS Conference – another building block
The XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, sounds a call to further action in the global fight against HIV and AIDS.
Health minister sparks controversy
Hopes for a controversy-free South African presence at the 15th International AIDS conference were dashed when the health minister opened the South African stand at the conference.
ABC isn’€™t that easyLiving with AIDS # 181
As the national comprehensive programme to treat people ill with AIDS conditions unfolds, one of the challenges facing government, civil society organisations and individuals in the fight against AIDS is not a new one. It'€™s to seek to improve programmes aimed at ensuring that those who are uninfected remain free of HIV. Health-e News Service looks at why new methods are needed to help enhance the Department of Health'€™s ABC HIV prevention message.
Condoms ‘€“ short-changing womenLiving with AIDS # 180
The Health Department has recently launched a new stylish brand of condoms called '€˜Choice'€™ in the hope that it will encourage greater condom usage. But as Health-e reports, for women the branding of condoms means very little. What'€™s most important is their ability to negotiate when and how they would like to have sex. The names of the women interviewed in this report are not their real names.
US policy hampering HIV prevention
AIDS activists have accused US President George Bush of hampering HIV prevention campaigns.
Condoms ‘€“ a simple choice?Living with AIDS #179
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.
When it’€™s time for medicineLiving with AIDS #178
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.
Ha e le nako ya meriana
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.
Condoms save girlfriend’€™s life
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.
Motletlebi o etsa kopo
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.
An activist’€™s wish Living with AIDS #177
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.
ARV programme stumbles?Living with AIDS #176
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.