Archive for August, 2006

TAC tarnishing HIV/AIDS fight

Friday, August 25th, 2006

This month, the Treatment Action Campaign has pointed fingers and called for the most ludicrous actions against cabinet ministers, while forgetting the people they are fighting for.
For South Africa, the 16th International Aids Conference in Toronto ended on a sour note with everybody taking well-aimed shots at Minister of Health […]

AIDS conference roundup

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Thousands of delegates and journalists from across the globe converged in Toronto for the 16th International AIDS Conference this week to once again thrash out solutions to the AIDS pandemic that has the world firmly in its grip.

The news from the conference is exciting in its variety and, as always, […]

Media’s Manto-bashing has undermined important nutrition message

Friday, August 11th, 2006

Has the South African media’s derision of Manto’s beetroot-and-African-potato diet been detrimental to the fight against HIV/AIDS? One has to wonder that they might have taken the joke too far for the good of HIV-positive people.
An HIV/AIDS and food security officer told journalists at the 16th International AIDS conference on August […]

Who’s really to blame for awareness campaign failure?

Friday, August 4th, 2006

Barely four months after the health minister’s proud declaration that 2006 would be the “year of accelerated HIV and AIDS prevention” the government is dismantling one of their biggest guns against HIV/AIDS and abandoning ship. Khomanani is no more.

In a speech at the Red Cross Symposium on Home-Based Care in April, Health […]