A South African AIDS activist and two of the country's top HIV doctors have tackled a well-respected journalist and author regarding what they believe are a number of errors regarding the country's epidemic and the benefits of ARVs. By Nathan Geffen, Francois Venter and Francesca Conradie
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The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has vowed to mobilise more communities to fight for quality health should the Gauteng Health Department not deliver on their demands. This week, the TAC marched to the office of Gauteng Health MEC demanding the restoration of health services.
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The Gauteng Health Department commemorated World AIDS Day in the Johannesburg city centre where thousands of commuters pass every day. The Department hopes that its message promoting safe sex will filter through to communities.
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The City of Johannesburg boasts to have contributed to the national AIDS treatment programme by placing 16 000 residents on Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ARVs) since 2004 and the city officials say the number is increasing.
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People living with HIV/AIDS often endure lack of support from friends and family and suffer low self-esteem, which may result in depression. This can complicate one’s journey to a healthy life.
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Bongani and Violet are both HIV-positive and they are madly in love with each other. What are the chances of a couple such as this to transmit HIV to each other?
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Are sexually active South Africans heeding the call to use condoms correctly and consistently to protect themselves from HIV and other dangers?
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A beggar on the streets of Johannesburg has something to offer to everyone. He is offering advice that people should beware of HIV.
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In South Africa, HIV prevalence among youth aged 15 - 24 is among the world’s highest. However, latest research has found that more young South Africans take less risky sexual behaviour.
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Disclosing to a child his or her HIV status is an emotionally taxing process that a lot of care givers or parents tend to avoid or postpone. A courageous Soweto foster parent took a bold decision and disclosed to the foster child that the child has HIV.
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For many years, hospices were known as places where people are sent to die. But many patients, especially those with AIDS, come out alive.
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Recent research shows that lesbians and women who have sex with both women and men are a marginalised group that is increasingly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS.
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Over 100 000 South African young men were circumcised in the last financial year in the government’s programme to integrate medical male circumcision into the country’s HIV prevention strategy.
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Most women still find it difficult to negotiate safe sex with their partners. The problem is even more prevalent among women who are economically dependent on men. Some institutionalised social and cultural norms also fuel the challenge.
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HIV-positive youth often find it hard to cope with their condition if they have lost close family due to the infection. This is a according to the Wits Institute for Sexual Reproductive Health HIV and Related Diseases. We spoke to one such teenager.
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As the government seeks to make HIV testing the norm, some in the health field are suggesting that HIV home testing kits should be promoted as part of the strategy. But should HIV testing be left to individuals - under little or no supervision? Ayanda Yeni, of Health-e News Service, takes up the story.
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South Africa has broken barriers to fight HIV/AIDS and the stigma attached to it, yet but the battle is not yet over. As World AIDS Day is observed almost 30 years on, Ayanda Yeni of Health-e News Service spoke to South Africans and asked them if they thought HIV was still a stigma.
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The media is full of reports of teenagers indiscriminately having sex and even going as far as filming it. This has led to a public outcry. But what makes young people to engage in risky behaviour? Ayanda Yeni of Health-e News Service visited a school in Brits, in the North West province, where teen pregnancy is rife.
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Taking a single antiretroviral (ARV) drug every day almost halves the chances of HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM), a groundbreaking international study which also took place in South Africa, has found.
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The Treatment Action Campaign’s General Secretary Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola and Chairperson Nonkosi Khumalo have received the John M Lloyd Foundation Leadership Award in Los Angeles.
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The Khayelitsha programme has been held up as a best practice model across the world. A report attempts to summarise the various programmes and shows among others that antiretroviral therapy is feasible in poor settings, antenatal HIV prevalence can be stabilised and a decentralised, nurse-led service is possible. Read the full report here.
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In June 1999 Thabo Mbeki became president. And so began one of the most destructive episodes in our recent history – AIDS denialism. Mbeki questioned the very existence of a sexually-transmitted virus that caused AIDS.
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A retreat from international funding commitments for AIDS threatens to undermine the dramatic gains made in reducing AIDS-related illness and death in recent years, according to a new report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).The MSF report highlights how expanding access to HIV treatment has not only saved the lives of people with AIDS but has been central to reducing overall mortality in a number of high HIV burden countries in southern Africa in recent years.
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Momma’s Bosom, Dear Dolly and Irma on Life and Love are some of the popular print media advice columns on issues including relationships and health. But these columns fail to adequately address HIV/AIDS-related queries from readers, according to a recent analysis.
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Swazi Member of Parliament and gospel singer, Pastor Timothy Myeni, has blamed the devil for suggesting at an MPs’ workshop, that there should be a law making it “compulsory to test for HIV” and that people testing positive should be “branded on the buttocks”.
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