‘A miracle happened’Living with AIDS # 145
Part 2 of an interview with Justice Edwin Cameron who describes his past six years on antiretroviral therapy as a "miracle" that has given him back his life.
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Brotherly love ‘ Part 2 Living with AIDS #147
In the last Living with AIDS feature, we heard how Goitsemang, a young man from Britstown, in the Northern Cape, has been on a quest to learn more about HIV and AIDS after hearing that his sister, Dibuseng, is HIV positive. Khopotso Bodibe of Health-e News Service, accompanied him to a doctor to have some of his questions answered.
Clocking in for treatment
Whether it's an alarm clock or the local rooster, people in poor communities can find ways to remember to take their antiretroviral therapy at the same time every morning and evening. Nyameka Ndhashe lost her mother to AIDS because she could not get antiretroviral therapy. Now she's a monitor for the Treatment Access Campaign helping others who are getting drugs to enjoy a new lease on life.
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Teenager supports mum
An important pre-condition for anyone on antiretroviral therapy under the Treatment Action Campaign's treatment project is to have the support of a friend. Buyiswa Gcwabe is desperately ill and has chosen her 16-year old daughter Zanele as her official 'treatment supporter'.
How anti-retroviral drugs work
A brief description of how anti-retroviral drugs work.
No turning back
Fighting HIV/AIDS with anti-retrovirals will change millions of South African lives, but failure could be devastating.
Hard pills to swallow
South Africa is poised to roll out the world's biggest antiretroviral treatment programme. But if we don't get it right first time, there is a danger of multi-drug resistant HIV developing.
Private 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.
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.
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.
A 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.
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.
TAC 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.
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.