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An Old Truth

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. [...] Read more

Power of Images in the fight against HIV/AIDS

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, [...] Read more

Democratising Science

2 Girls 1 Cup 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 Airline Tickets online Cheap Air Mattress Buy cheap Air Beds For Dogs Auto Rental Companies Work At Home online Laser Eye online /news/article_audio.php?uid=20031766, courtesy [...] Read more

Shortcuts in the Aids war

*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 [...] Read more

“It’s not about how many condoms have gone out, but about how many have been recalled”

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 [...] Read more

Weekend round-up

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" films [...] Read more

Separation Anxiety

"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 [...] Read more

HIV/AIDS and the Media Project discussion forum

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 [...] Read more