If you missed our “Democratising Science” forum in September, you can read and listen to some post-forum interviews with several of the panelists at http://www.health-e.org.za/news/article_audio.php?uid=20031766, courtesy of the Health-e News Service. The text and audio is in both English and isiZulu.  

*Mike Seneka, Sabelo Zondo,
and Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala
From her 21 st floor office suite on Field Street, Princess Aisha estimates that she writes about a dozen prescriptions per day for fidelity protection medicine. As part of a large cornucopia of African solutions for the African HIV/AIDS crisis, substances that assist with HIV prevention have been largely […]

The above quote is taken from Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s response to media reports that more SABS-approved condoms have been recalled due to concerns about defects. Clearly she is confused as to where the problem lies, for if she fully appreciated the dangers of roughly 8 million defective condoms in possession across the country, she […]

With the Boks’ big World Cup semifinal game and the ongoing Mbeki-Selebi-Pikoli saga grabbing most of the big headlines this weekend, there wasn’t too much on the HIV/AIDS front, but here are a handful of stories from the country’s major weekend reads.
"Mob stones to death man accused of killing HIV-positive son and girlfriend"
City Press - […]

"Factory gives jobs and hope to HIV people"
Sunday Times - 14 October 2007 - p. 14
This article tells the story of a toy-manufacturing company in Bronkhorstspruit, Gauteng, called The Cuddle Company, which only hires people who are HIV-positive or are otherwise affected by the disease (young people who have been orphaned […]