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/ 30 September 2009
If BEE were football, we’d be five minutes into the match. Kristin Palitza reports
An NGO is helping microfarmers to shift from survival to sustainability, reports Kristin Palitza.
The country was well on its way to reducing child mortality, but over the past decade the pandemic has annulled previous gains.
A handful of Eastern Cape men brave ridicule to take on ‘women’s work’. Kristin Palitza reports.
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/ 30 October 2008
The Sonke PhotoVoice Project allows children to talk about their wants and needs. Kristin Palitza reports.
Informal settlements worst hit by coastal downpour
Civil-society organisations in South Africa are preparing to push government to meet its commitment for setting national targets on HIV/Aids, made at the recent United Nations General Assembly Special Sessions on HIV/Aids. The first special sessions on HIV/Aids were held in 2001, when UN member states signed a declaration of commitment on HIV/Aids that recognised the need for concerted action against the pandemic.
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/ 24 January 2006
Voluntary counselling and testing services are meant to help HIV-positive people cope with the disease, but some counsellors are doing more harm than good, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal. NGOs and Aids activists in the province say many HIV-positive patients could live longer lives if provided with better information about the virus and their treatment options.
To some, the introduction of basic income grants (BIG) in South Africa is an unimaginable luxury — and the idea of implementing BIG in other, poorer African states simply laughable. Nonetheless, the South African campaign for BIG, which began four years ago, appears to be resonating elsewhere in the region.
It is tempting to call it a no-brainer: the idea that attempts to prevent transmission of HIV from mothers to children should be matched by initiatives to keep these mothers alive after they give birth. For all this, efforts in South Africa to prioritise the health of HIV-positive mothers have fallen short over past years.