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All quiet on the Aids front…
02/15/2008 | Blog
The combination of the quiet festive period and the focus on the ANC’s party conference at Polokwane has meant that there has been scant focus on the AIDS question and the issues that surround it. This is disappointing to report, since the drop in AIDS reports seems to have started directly after World AIDS Day, [...]
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An Old Truth
11/09/2007 | Blog
This week saw the reemergence of an old and frustrating truth: Mbeki ‘still AIDS dissident’. According to Mark Gevisser, the author of a new biography about Mbeki, the President still maintains that there is doubt over the link between HIV and AIDS, and sees the scientific conventions concerning AIDS couched in racist and colonial paradigms. [...]
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Power of Images in the fight against HIV/AIDS
11/09/2007 | Blog
This blog focuses on a series of articles that appeared in the Sowetan last week: “HIV Man Grows Boobs” Condition a side-effect of ARV’s, Sowetan, October 31 st 2007 p1, "Man beats his breasts over ARV effects", Sowetan, October 31 st, 2007, p 5 and “HIV drugs can swell glands”, Sowetan, October 31 st, [...]
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Democratising Science
10/31/2007 | Blog
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.
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Shortcuts in the Aids war
10/31/2007 | Article
*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 [...]
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“It’s not about how many condoms have gone out, but about how many have been recalled”
10/23/2007 | Blog
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 [...]
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Weekend round-up
10/23/2007 | Blog
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 - [...]
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Separation Anxiety
10/23/2007 | Blog
"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 [...]
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HIV/AIDS and the Media Project discussion forum
09/18/2007 | Blog
On Thursday, 27 September, the HIV/AIDS and the Media Project will host a discussion forum on science reporting and HIV-prevention trials entitled “Democratising Science”. The forum aims to open discussion on science reporting and clinical trials, with a particular focus on the global campaign for microbicides. Participants in the forum include researchers currently investigating [...]
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