The National Land Committee (NLC) is to vote on the closure of its national office. The relationship between the office and the NLC board, says its chairperson, has disintegrated.
Cautiously optimistic health-care workers and Aids activists are playing a waiting game in response to the government’s surprise announcement last week that it will roll out universal anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment.
Confusion still reigns over the degree of government commitment to providing treatment for rape survivors. And where such treatment exists it remains difficult to access.
The glaring absence of President Thabo Mbeki from the first South African Aids Conference, and the health minister’s ongoing sidelining of science in favour of politics, took much of the gloss off the conference’s undoubted achievements.
An obstacle course for women
The Medicine Control Council has denied that its decision to review nevirapine was a political one, saying it would not allow itself to be treated as ”banana regulatory authority”.
The Global Fund for HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria is in need of funding for 2004 and has called on European nations and the British for pledges to raise ,3-billion to meet its goals in 2004.
Ntombizandile Mqulo wakes up each morning with a difficult decision: should she take her son to work and make more money to feed him, or should she leave him in a pre-school but have less money to survive?
Africa Malaria Day kicked off last week with a surprise for certain African embassies in Pretoria when a group of children delivered letters on giant postcards calling for their governments to drop the tax on mosquito nets, a preventative measure against malaria.
Winnie Madikizela was sentenced to five years in jail on Friday after her conviction on dozens of fraud and theft charges. She will serve eight months of her sentence in prison.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of Nelson Mandela, could be sentenced to 15 years in jail today after being convicted for fraud and theft in a bungled banking scam.