South Africa is once again at the centre of an AIDS drug controversy. Emotions are running high and the challenge is to determine what the issues are and the likely consequences for the thousands of women and children who may need the drug.
As a public service, Health-e offers online readers copies of the reports and statements made by the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organisation and Boehringer-Ingelheim on the status, safety and efficacy of Nevirapine as it pertains to the treatment of mother to child transmission of HIV.
Follow proceedings at the 2nd International AIDS Society Conference in Paris from July 13 to 16 online courtesy of http://www.kaisernetwork.org - a free online health policy news and information service of the Kaiser Family Foundation. The Scientific Programme of the 2nd IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment is planned to provide new insights into HIV disease that can lead to new research directions, help speed translational research and move advances into clinical practice. Webcasts will be available of all conference plenaries as well as selected sessions.
Treatment Action Campaign leader Zackie Achmat has received the prestigious Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health Human Rights by the Washington-based Global Health Council. He was awarded it jointly with Dr Frenk Guni, the former director of the Zimbabwe Network of People living with HIV/AIDS. The award carries U$20 000 prize money. Achmat received U$10 000 of which half was donated to TAC. The award was accepted in Washington on behalf of Achmat by TAC's women's health programmes co-ordinator Nonkosi Khumalo. Click to read the full speech.
The death of a Mozambican miner after a leg injury is the subject of a complicated legal wrangle with potentially serious implications for the mining industry and workers who are HIV positive.
A potentially precedent-setting court case between Rustenberg Platinum Mines, the Inspector of Mines and the Ministry of Mineral and Energy Affairs and which could have a serious impact on the mining industry with regard to the rights of HIV positive miners has been postponed in the Pretoria High Court until January next year.
Health-e editor, Sue Valentine has been awarded a Nieman Fellowship for the 2002-2003 North American academic year. She will be part of a group of 12 U.S. journalists and 13 international journalists who will make up the 65th class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest mid-career fellowship for journalists in the world. The fellowships are awarded to working journalists of accomplishment and promise for an academic year of study in any part of the university. More than one thousand U.S. and international journalists have studied at Harvard as Nieman Fellows.
Infectious diseases can be controlled in the world'€™s poorest countries. This is the message contained in a World Health Organisation (WHO) report '€“ "Health A Key to Prosperity". The report names Uganda, Thailand and Senegal as national success stories in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Health-e reports on some of the success stories, many from Africa...
How did you learn about sex? From your parents, your friends, books or magazines? South Africans of all cultural backgrounds share a common awkwardness and reluctance to talk about sex. We might all say that sex is normal and natural, but we don't always behave that way. Sex is something that is whispered about, or worse still, never discussed at all. But when a sexually transmitted virus has the potential to decimate our society - it's time the conversation began. In this series of four articles, we speak to parents, a school guidance councillor and a clinic nurse who talk about the difficulty - but the necessity - of talking to children about sex and sexuality.
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