Abortion here to stay
Women's rights to access abortion services are not under threat.
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Brothel VCT intervention yields positive results
Densely populated, crime ridden; filthy and full of brothels is how Hillbrow is usually described. Sex workers thrive. The rate of sexually transmitted infections is high in such areas. Yet an HIV Voluntary Counselling and Testing programme introduced a few years ago is showing positive results. And a number of women in this area celebrate Women's Day with vigour ' knowing that they have a clean bill of health.
Micro-financing & HIV education
Living with AIDS # 271
Social conditions such as poverty and gender inequalities play a major role in driving the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Often, it is women who are at the mercy of such conditions. A unique pilot project in the remote villages of Limpopo and Mpumalanga is using micro-finance to intervene.
Living with AIDS # 271
HIV & pregnancy
Living with AIDS # 265
HIV-positive pregnant women are more likely to experience pregnancy-related complications than HIV-negative pregnant women. This is according to a study by Wits University's Department of Nursing Education.
Living with AIDS # 265
We must act on the lessons learned during the Zuma rape trial
In the aftermath of the Zuma trial, two prominent male gender activists reflect on the lessons they have learnt.
Putting microbicides to the test
Thousands of women in South Africa and elsewhere have volunteered for the world's largest clinical trials to test the efficacy of a range of microbicides, that, if successful, could prevent at least 2,5 million new infections in the developing world, over the next five years.
Men prefer guns to kill partners
Guns are the weapon of choice for South African men who kill their partners, yet authorities seldom remove firearms from men who have a history of domestic violence.
Fatal attraction
In Vulindlela, the pleasures an older man with money is able to give to a teenage girl come at a price: six times' greater risk of HIV.
The power of words
Four years ago Tracy Niekerk discovered she was HIV positive after her husband applied for a life insurance policy. Much has changed since then. Tracy is one of three South Africans sharing their experiences of living with HIV through the Red Ribbon Diary Project.
Nokwanda’s Journey (2)
Part two in our series on the life and death of Nokwanda, a 27-year-old Eastern Cape mother of four. Writer Susan Winters spent four years with Nokwanda and her family as she faced death from HIV-related illnesses.
Catching cancer early
The most common cancers affecting women are breast and cervical cancer. A regular pap smear can help women detect cervical cancer early when effective treatment is possible.
Mother-baby drug to be phased out as single therapy
The Medicines Control Council, has recommended to the Health Ministry that it stop using nevirapine as a single agent in the prevention of mother-to-child-HIV-transmission. Health-e caught up with the Registrar of medicines Precious Matsoso, at the XV International AIDS
Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, and asked her why the MCC made the decision.
Single dose nevirapine under review
The Medicines Control Council has recommended that nevirapine no longer be the only antiretroviral drug being offered to pregnant HIV positive mothers to prevent them passing the virus on to their newborn babies.
Museveni beats a moral drum
HIV/AIDS is a problem that is mainly 'moral, social and economic' rather than a health issue,Ugandan President Yuweri Museveni told delegates at the International AIDS conference in Bangkok.
Drinking ourselves to death?
Government claims its long-promised regulations aimed at curbing alcohol abuse will 'soon' be published for public comment. But how should it deal with excessive drinking when alcohol is so much part of South African culture?