South African Press Association - December 23, 2003
An East Rand man was told, Welcome to the world of Aids, after being forced at pistol point to have sex with three women in their 30s, police reported. Superintendent Andy Pieke said the highly traumatised 18-year-old was told by the women after his ordeal: Welcome to the world of Aids. The youth reported the alleged s
South African Press Association - December 22, 2003
Hundreds of Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) activists are expected to march in Khayelitsha to protest against the brutal gang-rape and murder of an HIV-positive community activist. We are trying to address the discrimination and stigma within our own communities by condemning what is happening to our colleagues, said T
South African Press Association - December 18, 2003
Childhood mortality was at unacceptably high levels in South Africa and the leading cause was HIV/Aids, the SA Medical Research Council said today. HIV/Aids had accounted for 40% of the deaths of young children in 2000, head of the MRC s Burden of Disease research unit Debbie Bradshaw said in a statement. Although
South African Press Association - December 12, 2003
A R71-million agreement aimed at improving the infrastructure for HIV/Aids voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) facilities in three provinces was signed yesterday by the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and the German Development Bank. The project seeks to improve facilities in the remote areas of KwaZulu-
South African Press Association - December 10, 2003
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to allow a second manufacturer to produce generic versions of its antiretroviral (ARV) medicines, the pharmaceutical company said today. GSK has also agreed to entertain applications for a further two possible licences, it said in a statement. The agreement came after an HIV-positive
South African Press Association - December 10, 2003
Significantly cheaper Aids treatment is expected to result from agreements reached with two pharmaceutical companies in South Africa . It has come late, and at the cost of many lives, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) leader Zackie Achmat told reporters today in Pretoria. Let s put that behind us... Competition Comm
South African Press Association - December 2, 2003
TAC and it s chairman, Zachie Achmat, have been acknowledged for their efforts in the fight against HIV/Aids by being nominated for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination from US-based Quaker organisation the American Friends Service Committee [AFSC] says Achmat and the TAC have made a significant contribution to t
South African Press Association - November 30, 2003
CAPE TOWN - A musical appeal was made on Saturday at the 46664 concert to governments and ordinary people to take up the fight against Aids and to recognise it as a human rights issue. Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town was filled to capacity with 45000 people as musicians like Bono, Johnny Clegg and Bob Geldof sang for t
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - November 26, 2003
Finding a lover who shares her appetite for cheap liquor has never been tough for Eunice Elliott, even after she contracted the virus that causes Aids. The 42-year-old vagrant from Grahamstown in South Africa knows her HIV status - the diagnosis was made during a brief sober spell a year ago. When she became incapa
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - October 27, 2003
British pop star Phil Collins has pledged his South African royalty earnings to the value of R370,000 to a local organisation caring for HIV/Aids affected and infected children, the Topsy Foundation said on Monday. It said the Gallo record company, which represents Collins recording rights in South Africa, presented th
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - October 22, 2003
Cabinet might consider a plan within the next few days for antiretroviral treatment at state hospitals, government spokesman Joel Netshitenzhe said on Wednesday. The health department was still preparing documents regarding the plan for submission to Cabinet, he told reporters in Pretoria after the executive s fortnig
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - October 14, 2003
Up to 70 percent of Zimbabwean prisoners are involved in homosexuality in jails where the HIV prevalence rate is estimated to be 60 percent, the state-owned ZIANA news agency said Tuesday. The news agency cited a doctor from a government referral hospital who said many prisoners who seek medical attention have been inv
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - October 9, 2003
The Defence department has denied discriminating against people living with HIV/Aids, saying there is no ban on such individuals doing civilian jobs in the military. But all recruits for active military duty have to pass a comprehensive health assessment -- including an HIV/Aids test -- to be accepted, defence minister
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - October 9, 2003
Aids drug lobby group, the Treatment Action Campaign, lost 100 of its leaders to the disease over a four-month period, chairman Zackie Achmat said on Thursday. Most of those who died were women younger than 24, he told Pretoria Technikon students after receiving a communicator of the year award. They died between March
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - October 8, 2003
The government accused the media on Wednesday of misinterpreting statements by President Thabo Mbeki about Aids, and of seeking to create confrontation on the topic. We are concerned about some of the discourse in the media in the recent period, singling out and misinterpreting for instance the pronouncements of the p
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - September 30, 2003
A draft Aids treatment plan, which includes the provision of antiretroviral drugs at state health facilities, was received by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on Tuesday, her department said. It said Dr Anthony MBewu (SUBS: CORRECT), the leader of a task team that drew up the plan, presented the document to the
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - September 29, 2003
Multinational pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim on Monday gave a guarded response following threats by the Treatment Action Campaign and the Generic Antiretroviral Procurement Project (GARPP) to bypass it and import generic nevirapine. The company was responding to a request from the TAC and GARPP to get perm
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - September 28, 2003
An idea sparked by a television broadcast two years ago to come to fruition, when the inaugural South African Run and Bike for Help endurance race gets under way to raise HIV/Aids awareness. It (the project) started by watching TV in the wee hours of the morning, when I saw German Joachim Franz -- who had achieved worl
South African Press Association - 21 September 2003
KENYA - Thousands of experts gathered in Nairobi on Sunday for a council of war on Africa s battle against Aids, a combat characterised by a relentlessly spreading pandemic but also by some good news at last about funds and access to drugs. Some 8 000 doctors, researchers, policymakers and grassroots campaigners were r
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - September 6, 2003
Social Development minister Zola Skweyiya on Saturday urged volunteers throughout South Africa to help improve the lives of children and to intensify the fight against poverty and HIV/Aids. Skweyiya, in a speech delivered on his behalf by departmental director-general Vusi Madonsela, encouraged volunteers to help impro
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - September 5, 2003
If the Cabinet approved a plan currently being drawn up for the treatment of Aids patients at state facilities, including antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, it would be possible to introduce it almost immediately, one of the drafters said on Friday. That did not mean all people in need of ARVs would get them straight away th
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - September 4, 2003
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) had served as a stern warning to Africa, delegates at the Africa regional meeting of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Johannesburg heard on Thursday. This was a wake-up call in bringing to the fore the inadequacies of our health systems, Zambian Health Minister Dr Brian Ch
JOHANNESBURG - Visiting US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist suggested on Thursday South Africa had to take the scope of the Aids pandemic sweeping the country more seriously. Frist said in conversations with South Africa s trade minister he was told Aids was not hurting the country s economy or lowering life expectanc
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 18, 2003
Johannesburg: A strategy launched on Monday aims to reduce new HIV-Aids infections in the road freight industry by 20 percent by October next year. At present, though, HIV-Aids prevalence among the industry s 55,000 workers was unknown, said Louis Hollander, chairman of a coordinating committee that drew up the strateg
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 16, 2003
Johannesburg: HIV/Aids was not simply a health problem, Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Saturday. Our reality is that we face the challenge of HIV and Aids in the midst of several other socio-economic problems that affect our region, she said in a speech prepared for delivery at the Women in Partner
South African Press Association - - August 15, 2003
Last week, the Cabinet told the Department of Health to develop a detailed operational plan for antiretrovirals within two months in what signalled a massive shift in the government s approach to pandemic. The social development department s chief director of population and development, Jacques van Zuydam, said on Thur
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 13, 2003
Durban - The leadership of South Africa s Catholic church on Wednesday welcomed the government s undertaking to mount an anti-retroviral HIV/Aids treatment programme. At the end of its plenary assembly in Mariannhill outside Durban on Wednesday, however, the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) warned t
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - 13 August 2003
EAST LONDON - Almost half the patients tested recently for HIV/Aids at Frere Hospital in East London and 35% of patients in the tuberculosis ward at Umtata General hospital were shown to be HIV-positive. These figures were released by the Eastern Cape department of health on Tuesday. Department spokesperson Sizwe K
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 10, 2003
The Democratic Alliance said on Sunday it had no faith in Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang s ability to be in charge of the new government plan on HIV and Aids. DA spokesman on Aids Mike Waters said President Mbeki should appoint someone else to drive the initiative. Waters was reacting to an announcement that
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - 10 August 2003
South African Aids and HIV sufferers and health workers yesterday welcomed the turn-around by President Thabo Mbeki s government to allow life-saving anti-retroviral drugs to reach the public. But there was also anger that the government s delay in accepting the use of the drugs had cost many lives. Mbeki had come unde
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 9, 2003
The ANC in the Western Cape said today it was very pleased with the Cabinet s instruction to the Health Department to urgently develop a detailed operational plan for a national anti-retroviral treatment programme. Cameron Dugmore, an ANC spokesperson, said the decision was a major boost for the ANC government s compre
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 9, 2003
Cabinet has given the department of health until the end of September to develop a detailed operational plan on an anti-retroviral treatment programme. This follows a special cabinet meeting in Pretoria today, on a report by a joint health and treasury task team that looked into Aids treatment options in the public sec
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 9, 2003
Opposition parties on Saturday welcomed the Cabinet s instruction to the Health Department to urgently develop a detailed operational plan for a national antiretroviral treatment programme. The New National Party (NNP) said it was pleased the government had heeded the almost universal call for an operational roll-out p
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 6, 2003
The question is not whether there will be a universal anti-retroviral treatment programme, but when, Health Director-General Ayanda Ntsaluba told the South African Aids Conference in Durban on Wednesday. In response, HIV-positive judge Edwin Cameron said in his closing address: The question is not when, but how soon?
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 5, 2003
South Africa s largest HIV/Aids survey yet is to be undertaken among the country s teachers, Minister of Education Kader Asmal said on Monday. Blood samples would be drawn from 25 000 teachers in the case study conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council, Asmal said. He was speaking at a media conference following
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 4, 2003
Government should use the R27-million confiscated from criminals to help pay for the prevention of HIV in rape survivors, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. DA justice spokeswoman Sheila Camerer, has vowed to fight the excision of a clause in the new Sexual Offences Bill to provide post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 4, 2003
The government will save R30 by not giving Nevirapine to save a baby s life, but spend R600 a month thereafter on treating the HIV-infected child, a leading paediatrician warned on Monday. Dr Ashraf Coovadia of the SA Paediatric Association was responding to an Inkatha Freedom Party call for doctors to do more to prote
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 4, 2003
Hundreds of Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) supporters marched on Monday to the Durban International Convention Centre where the South African Aids Conference is being held. TAC spokesman S bu Khanyile said the group was demanding that talks between the government, labour, business and civil societies on the National F
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 4, 2003
HIV-positive judge Edwin Cameron is to lead a delegation of people living with HIV on Monday when they protest their exclusion from key events at the South African Aids Conference in Durban. This must be the first Aids conference I ve attended in 10 years where there has been this omission, Cameron said on Monday.
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 3, 2003
Deputy President Jacob Zuma told the first South African AIDS Conference in Durban on Sunday that the Aids epidemic raised huge challenges, ethical and human rights questions. Opening the conference, Zuma who is also chairman of the South African National AIDS Council, skirted the present controversy over the provision
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 3, 2003
Data will be presented at the South African Aids conference that begins in Durban on Sunday to show that 100,000 South African women have received Nevirapine to prevent HIV transmission to their babies in the past two years. Professor James McIntyre, one of the world s leading authorities on the prevention of mother-to
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 3, 2003
A global petition will be presented to the South African Medicines Control Council this week calling for the continued use of Nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. The Washington-based Elizabeth Glaser Paediatric Aids Foundation launched the petition on Friday and sent it to a massive data base of
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 2, 2003
The Treatment Action Campaign s (TAC) national congress in Durban urged on Saturday its charismatic chairman Zackie Achmat to start taking antiretroviral (ARV) medication for his HIV condition. About 520 delegates gathered at the Coastlands Hotel supported by a show of hands an entreaty from the TAC s secretary Mark He
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - 2 August 2003
CAPE TOWN - The South African Paediatric Association (Sapa) added its voice on Friday to the chorus of concern regarding the possible banning of anti-retroviral Aids drug Nevirapine, saying it was safe. Earlier in the day, the Treatment Action Campaign said it was consulting lawyers on the matter. Sapa, in a statement,
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - July 31, 2003
Global spending on HIV prevention programmes will have to increase three-fold to US5,7-billion by 2005 to help reverse the global Aids epidemic, the latest report by the International HIV/Aids Working Group says. The report, which comes ahead of an international Aids conference in Durban, says donor governments should
CAPE TOWN - The population of HIV/Aids-ravaged southern Africa is expected to decline by 22% by 2050, according to a recent study. The latest world population data sheet of the United States-based Population Reference Bureau estimates South Africa s population will drop from 44-million this year to 35,1-million in 2025
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - July 19, 2003
Former United States president Bill Clinton urged the world on Saturday to do something about Africa s problems as a birthday present to former president Nelson Mandela. This included fighting Aids, reducing the continent s debt burden, and broadening its trade opportunities, Clinton said in Johannesburg. If you
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - July 14, 2003
The secrecy around the Aids treatment report suggested government was looking for a reason not introduce antiretrovirals, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. DA spokesman on HIV/Aids Mike Waters was reacting to the Treatment Action Campaign s release at the weekend of what the organisation said were key findings of
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - July 12, 2003
The South African population, which was expected to peak at 46-million in 2005, could then drop by 21-million by 2025 due to HIV/Aids, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Saturday. In a speech prepared for delivery at the 28th IFP annual general conference, Buthelezi said: There are no words which
South African Press Association (Durban) - 10 June 2003
A study is being conducted to determine the prevalence of HIV/Aids among teachers, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Monday. Speaking at a Council of Education Ministers (CEM) meeting in Durban, he said the Human Science Research Council, with assistance from teacher unions, was conducting the study for the depart
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - June 4, 2003
The Treatment Action Campaign was hopeful, but not too optimistic that the Cabinet would approve a plan next week to provide antiretroviral treatment to Aids patients at state hospitals and clinics, TAC secretary Mark Heywood said on Wednesday. The body knew the Cabinet had a document outlining the costs of such a step
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - June 2, 2003
The SA Aids Vaccine Initiative (SAAVI) cautioned on Monday that a candidate HIV/Aids vaccine developed by a team at the University of Cape Town (UCT) was still years away from human trials, let alone full-scale production. Media reports on Monday morning painted a picture of an Aids breakthrough that was not altogether
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - May 24, 2003
The South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights (Sapohr) on Friday condemned the phasing out of condoms in Swazi jails as part of a campaign to discourage sex behind bars. It is highly astonishing, embarrassing, irresponsible and barbaric decision by the Swaziland government to declare a proclamation to the
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - May 15, 2003
The HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) has launched an international clinical trial which will test a promising HIV prevention vaccine candidate for humans. The vaccine, called EP HIV-1090, would be tested on 42 volunteers in the United States and Botswana , HVTN said on Thursday. This trial marks a new stage i
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - May 9, 2003
Johannesburg - South Africa s first patented Aids technology which drastically reduces the cost of monitoring the immune levels of Aids patients, could save African economies billions of rands when it is exported globally. The PanLeucogated CD4 T-cell enumeration technique (PLG CD4) developed by pathologist Debbie Glen
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - May 5, 2003
Members of the SA Medical Association (Sama) working at hospitals nation-wide were to wear protest T-shirts to work on Monday and Tuesday in support of the Treatment Action Campaign s (TAC) drive to make anti-retrovirals (ARVs) freely available to people living with Aids. Sama, which represents the views and interests
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - May 1, 2003
The African National Congress government had let South Africa s Aids orphans down, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday. The time has come for a concerted effort to assist children affected by HIV/Aids -- the DA calls for the launch of Operation Life Line , DA HIV/Aids spokesman Mike Waters said. Waters was respond
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - April 28, 2003
Insufficient is how the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) views the announcement by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline that it will cut the prices of its HIV/Aids drugs by up to 47 percent for countries eligible for reduced prices. The reduction will drop the price of
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - April 27, 2003
South Africans celebrated Freedom Day on Sunday with President Thabo Mbeki saying the government would continue carrying out its programmes to fight HIV/Aids. He told a rally near Orkney in the North West that all South Africans, for their part, should act responsibly to help curb the spread of the disease. The governm
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - April 24, 2003
Police arrested 17 members of the Treatment Action Campaign on Thursday after they occupied the Cape Town office of the Department of Trade and Industry. The protest was part of TAC s civil disobedience campaign to push the government to commit to a national antiretroviral treatment programme for people with HIV/Aids.
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - April 11, 2003
The Democratic Alliance criticised the government on Friday over the delay in signing an agreement with the Global Fund for Aids, TB and Malaria that would have seen funds made available for Aids sufferers within 10 days. DA spokeswoman Sandy Kalyan said the Department of Health had again put its arrogant approach to
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - April 3, 2003
Lesotho , Malawi , Mozambique , Swaziland , Zambia and Zimbabwe are battling a lethal mix of drought-induced food shortages and a massive Aids pandemic, according to a United Nations Childre
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - April 3, 2003
The Nelson Mandela Medical School in Durban will begin recruiting 360 HIV patients next week to participate in clinical trials for a new non-invasive treatment for the disease. Making the announcement on Thursday, Medical School dean Professor Barry Kistnasamy said the university had accepted a brief from Hivex Ltd, a
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - April 2, 2003
The entire private sector must create plans similar to that of the mining industry to combat HIV/Aids because the government has not totally committed itself to fight the pandemic, labour consultants said on Wednesday. These companies should, just like the mining sector, do an impact study ... and approach it from that
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - April 1, 2003
Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) protesters have called on the South African human rights and gender equality commissions to speak out on its demand for an Aids treatment plan. In a memorandum handed to the SA Human Rights Commission in Cape Town and Johannesburg, TAC condemned the body s inaudible and vacillating utter
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - March 31, 2003
About 500000 people in southern Africa die from malaria each year, and HIV/Aids should not overshadow this, health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Monday. Therefore, issues of TB ( tuberculosis ) and malaria should not be overshadowed by HIV/Aids, she told a meeting of religious leaders in Johannesburg. S
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - March 23, 2003
On the same day that the government placed full-page advertisements in Sunday newspapers calling for partnerships, the Democratic Alliance has called on the health minister to provide anti-retroviral treatment or resign and go to Iraq as a human shield. If the Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang cannot or
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - March 22, 2003
The universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch expect to start vaccine trials for HIV/Aids in 2004, a statement from the African Human Genome Initiative conference said on Saturday. The international conference is on the social, ethical, legal, educational, bio-medical and bio-technological implications of the Human Ge
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - March 20, 2003
Medical doctors on Thursday were encouraged to support a civil disobedience campaign to lobby for the creation of a national HIV/Aids treatment plan. The SA Medical Association (SAMA) came out in full support of the protest, initiated by the Aids drug lobby group Treatment Action Campaign. In a statement, SAMA said its
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - March 17, 2003
South Africa s economy will be hard hit in 2003 as hundreds of thousands of HIV-infected workers develop full-blown Aids, and few companies have prepared for this. Clem Sunter, a strategist for Anglo American, South Africa s largest listed company, said most of the country s five million HIV-positive people had contrac
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - February 19, 2003
Treatment Action Campaign members threatened on Wednesday to blockade an auditorium at Parliament when they were barred from attending a presentation by health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. The TAC members, who included the organisation s chairman Zackie Achmat, were eventually allowed in after spirited interventi
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - February 16, 2003
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The number of Aids-related deaths in South African prisons is estimated to have grown by 750% since 1995, according to a research consultant by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS). Six times more prisoners died of natural causes last year than in 1995, and 90% to 95% of the deaths were believed to have been Aids-r
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - February 13, 2003
Hundreds of members and supporters of the National Association of People Living with HIV/Aids (Napwa) marched to Parliament on Thursday calling on government to alleviate the plight of Aids sufferers. In a memorandum handed to an official at Parliament at lunchtime, the group demanded that the government make access to
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - February 12, 2003
United States Ambassador Cameron Hume on Tuesday criticised the South African government s inability to spend available resources on HIV/Aids and questioned whether it would utilise the roughly R1,7-billion his government had earmarked to combat the disease in 2004. Addressing about 20 US students who are studying at
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - February 12, 2003
Former president Nelson Mandela distanced himself on Wednesday from the Treatment Action Campaign s planned march on Parliament during the opening of this year s parliamentary session on Friday. Mandela visited a TAC-run centre in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, in December, during which he was presented with a TAC T-shirt whi
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - February 5, 2003
MPs attending a portfolio committee meeting on social development on Wednesday heard that the projected mortality rates for South Africans dying of HIV/Aids will increase from 219660 in 2000 to 375670 in 2003. This was according to Dr Olive Shisana, the executive director of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) d
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - February 4, 2003
National and provincial health departments will promote good sexual behaviour during Sexually Transmitted Infections and Condom Awareness week from Monday next week. The national health department will officially launch the campaign at a media briefing in Pretoria on Wednesday. The North West health department, meanwhi
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - January 23, 2003
Lesotho s population is faced with a double crisis through the food shortages and the prevalent HIV/Aids pandemic, a senior United Nations mission said in Maseru on Thursday. While international aid has help to prevent famine in Lesotho over the past six months, food shortages continue to haunt the country already weak
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - January 21, 2003
Good nutrition was critical to the management of debilitating diseases including HIV/Aids, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Tuesday. In a media statement released after the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ministerial meeting on nutrition and HIV/Aids, Tshabalala-Msimang said: There is a ne
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - January 20, 2003
Southern Africa was facing a new kind of famine, one exacerbated by HIV/Aids , a Southern African Development Community (SADC) conference heard on Monday. Bunmi Makinwa of the United Nations Aids agency UNAids told the meeting at Kempton Park that seven million agricultural workers have succumbed to HIV/Aids in 25 Afri
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - January 20, 2003
In the absence of HIV/Aids, South Africa s population would have totalled 61-million by 2015, but due to the effects of the virus it was now expected to grow to about 49-million by that time, the University of South Africa s Bureau of Market Research (BMR) said on Monday. In five years time, HIV prevalence would averag
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - January 20, 2003
James Morris, the United Nations Secretary-General s special envoy for humanitarian needs in Southern Africa, will from Tuesday visit four of the countries in the region worst affected by hunger and HIV/Aids, the UN said on Monday. During a week-long tour Morris would visit Lesotho ,
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - January 19, 2003
The role of nutrition, food supplements and immune boosters in helping people infected with HIV/Aids, will be discussed in Kempton Park on Monday at a two-day conference hosted by the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Health Department spokesman Sibani Mngadi said the experience of health professionals, in
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - January 17, 2003
The Mandela SOS concert which was to have taken place on Robben Island on February 2 was called off on Friday. John Samuel, chief executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, told Sapa: We have concluded that the concert cannot take place since the proposed producers were not able to come to a satisfactory agreement wit
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - January 6, 2003
Aids activists suspended a hunger strike on Monday after embarking on the action on Christmas day to highlight discrimination against HIV/Aids sufferers, the National Association of People Living with HIV/Aids (Napwa) said. Napwa spokesman Joe Manciya said the decision to suspend the hunger strike followed a meeting wi
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - January 2, 2003
The Department of Social Development urged Aids activists on Thursday to call off the second stage of their hunger strike and to join government in discussions to draw up a uniform policy on HIV/Aids. Members of the National Association of People Living with HIV/Aids (Napwa) began a hunger strike on Christmas Day outsi
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - January 1, 2003
A seven-day hunger strike by Aids activists outside the offices of pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline in Midrand ended on Wednesday, SABC radio news reported. The strike by members of the National Association of People living with Aids (Napwa) was part of their Seven Days Black Christmas protest, aimed at forcing
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