HIV/AIDS Barometer


HIV/AIDS Barometer

Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) - August 17, 2001

Estimated worldwide HIV infections: 42 868 107 at 1.25pm on Thursday August 16 Roofs over heads: Gauteng MEC for Housing Paul Mashatile this week said his department will implement a pilot project to determine the feasibility of providing accommodation for people infected or affected by HIV-Aids. He said the department had commissioned research on how HIV/Aids affected housing beneficiaries and the results were now being processed into a draft policy on HIV/Aids in relation to housing needs.

Save our children: At the All Africa HIV/Aids Anglican Conference in Boksburg this week, Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane called on delegates to work towards ensuring the continent had a generation free of the epidemic. Deputy President Jacob Zuma, who heads the South Africa National Aids Council, told the conference the stigma of Aids was affecting the numbers of people who have voluntary testing and that disclosure would go a long way towards combating the pandemic.

Hitting back: Department of Health Director General Dr Ayanda Ntsaluba accused trade unions this week of hypocrisy in their criticism of the government's handling of the HIV/Aids crisis. He said since 1994 South Africa had been "working on a very strategy based on the HIV virus and compounded by other factors".

Sources: www.redribbon.co.za, Sapa


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