Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) - September 01, 1995
Rehana Rossouw
The Centre for Applied Legal Studies has produced a draft Bill on prostitution for the Department of Health, reports Rehana Rossouw South Africa s growing sex industry offers consumers sex in books and magazines, on pornographic videos and over sex chat lines, but the law still prohibits them from buying the real thing
Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) - September 01, 1995
Rehana Rossouw
South Africa will once again have sex police, like it did when police shone torches into bedrooms hunting people having sex across the colour line, if the draft Bill prepared by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies succeeds, a sex worker organisation warned this week. We are going to need policemen in brothels, ensur
The photographic exhibition Positive Lives: Responses to HIV challenges our most cherished concepts of life and death, writes HAYDEN PROUD AWARD-WINNING South African photographer Gideon Mendel is the focal point and bridge between this country and Britain in Positive Lives: Responses to HIV, a ground- breaking exhibit
What do you do when you discover your domestic worker is HIV-positive? A Johannesburg doctor, who cannot be named for professional reasons, came across two startlingly different cases I am a doctor employed in one of the public hospitals in Johannesburg. One of my duties is to consult with patients in the hospitals so
South Africa s first 24-hour Aids care centre has opened in Durban, marking the culmination of five months of determined effort by a dozen people whose lives have been directly affected by the virus. The Durban Aids Care Centre aims to provide a friendly service to the Aids and HIV community -- and hopes to inspire wid
Adult television viewers must decide for themselves what they watch and don t watch -- and cannot expect the SABC to censor itself to suit their tastes. This is the essence of a judgment made by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC) of South Africa concerning an insert broadcast on NNTV s youth magazine programm
The life insurance industry s policy of excluding HIV carriers from assurance is short-sighted and irrational, argues Ryan Goodman PAUL Truyens response to Cheryl Carolus criticism of the life insurance industry s policy on HIV and Aids, (M&G June 15 to 22), cannot go unanswered. Truyens argument that the life assu
The communications, marketing and health sectors of countries around the world, particularly in Africa, are failing the most critical test of their expertise. Not simply because it s a complex one, but because it s an unpopular one and affects other people . That problem is Aids awareness. Latest World Health Organisat
The South African Police Services are to face a court challenge over the exclusion of people with HIV infection from the force. Police unions and human rights law organisations have filed papers in the Transvaal Supreme Court arguing that SAPS policy of pre-employment HIV testing is discriminatory in that it excludes p
Signs at Johannesburg General Hospital stating that patients can be routinely tested for HIV are to be removed, says superintendent Dr Robert Odes. This follows a complaint by an outraged patient who recognised that routine testing was contrary to Health Department policy and World Health Organisation guidelines. The A
SA s Catholic bishops will not tolerate condom demonstrations in their Aids awareness programme, reports Mapula Sibanda An Aids awareness worker has been fired -- for showing people how to use a condom. Chrys Matubatuba, 31, an Aids awareness co-ordinator for the South African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) says h
THE South African National Defence Force s claim that its refusal to employ people who test HIV positive is non-discriminatory beggars belief. Not only does it violate the Constitutional principle that no South African may be discriminated against on the grounds of disability, but it also flouts the Guidelines on Aids
THE insurance industry is very aware of the whole issue surrounding Aids and the plight of HIV positive people. In order to put the industry s dilemma into perspective though, it is necessary to go back to the basic premises on which insurance is based. The very basis of insurance is the pooling of risks and, except in
Kathy Berman, producer of NNTV s youth magazine programme The Works, is to conduct her own defence when the SABC appears before the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC) today. The SABC has been summoned before the BCC in connection with an insert entitled Sex and Romance in the Nineties which was broadcast as part
ANC deputy secretary general Cheryl Carolus applied for life insurance -- and discovered how HIV sufferers are The experience of buying our first home has been turned, for my husband and I, into a face-to-face confrontation with the irresponsible and discriminatory way in which the insurance industry continues to deal
Prisoners go to court to prevent unauthorised HIV testing, reports Justin Pearce Prisoner Lucas Benny Gae didn t know he was being tested for HIV. Nor did he know the result of the test until he was told to pack his belongings and move to the A Section of the prison: the single cells which, according to jailhouse rumou
With all the brouhaha about a national health scheme, the whole issue of marketing safer sex to ill-informed, superstitious and suspicious communities is in danger of being eclipsed, or altogether lost. Get ready for an unpopular and un-PC but vital series of observations. The recent international Aids conference in
Combating discrimination was the main focus of the international Aids conference held in Cape Town this week. Justin Pearce reports Buried in the agenda of this week s Cape Town International Conference for People Living with HIV and Aids was a session entitled Identities . Delegates split into interest groups -- sex w
AIDS is the linking theme among the 70 films which have been brought together for a festival starting in Cape Town tonight -- and they range from Aids -- Life at Stake (a Kenyan Jim-goes-to-Nairobi tale about a migrant worker who contracts HIV in the city) to Safe is Desire ( learn how to make a clingfilm nappy in this
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