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Concerns over the rights of HIV-positive employees in the workplace

The Sunday Times this week has reported on growing concerns over the unfair dismissal of HIV-positive individuals in the workplace.
Continue reading | 2 December 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: hiv awareness, hiv education, sunday times

HIV coverage picks up

As another Monday rolls around HIV coverage can be described as thick and fast. City Press, The Star and the Sunday Times are among those publications providing us with a smorgasbord of HIV-related articles.
Continue reading | 26 September 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: biophotonics, city press, hiv vaccine, media coverage, sunday times, the star

Rethinking Risk

With the commendable strides in biomedical intervention garnering the bulk of our already scant HIV media coverage, the Sunday Times’ focus on young South Africans’ behaviour this week presented a welcome change of pace.

But those looking forward to a meaningful engagement with issues around sexual behaviour would have been somewhat disappointed.

The article recounts the findings of a recent collaborative study by the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of North Carolina, which attempted to gauge the sexual risk-taking behaviours of young adults (18 to 24).

Continue reading | 19 September 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: safe sex messaging, sunday times, unprotected sex