The argument about whether or not multivitamins are as effective as antiretroviral treatment in treating HIV/AIDS-related illness is poised to rear its controversial head once again despite the fact it’s most ardent advocator, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, has almost disappeared from public life.

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) claims the […]

The Sunday Times’ Each One Reach Five campaign is a bold and ambitious approach to the fight against HIV/AIDS. The newspaper has asked that every person reading the stories that appeared on the issue of 15 April 2007 do an HIV test and get five people to do the same. The campaign […]

In a country where a child is raped every 24 minutes and one is molested every eight minutes, and where 40 percent of all reported rapes are of children, as the Citizen reported this week, it is vital to not only cover this issue substantially, but also effectively and sensitively.

Perhaps a […]

I read the story about Patricia de Lille having to pay damages for invasion of privacy to three women who feature in her authorised biography, Patricia de Lille, and whose HIV-positive status she reveals, with an interesting mixture of happiness and worry. I was happy that the Constitutional Court had ruled in […]