This week, I sat in a workshop on reporting the science of HIV/AIDS, hosted by the Media, AIDS and Governance Project at IDASA and the Treatment Action Campaign. Clearly it’s a complex subject and the workshop raised myriad challenges that need to be addressed.

Aside from having to understand the science themselves (which is no […]

With an estimated 40 people dying from AIDS every hour in South Africa, (or about 350,000 per year - see Statistics Factsheet), I often wonder how on earth ordinary people cope with the immense grief and loss that is the reality behind this statistic. It’s not normally an aspect of the pandemic that we see […]