Medical humanitarian organisation, Médécins Sans Frontières (MSF), continues to be the lone voice sounding the alarm about the cost and availability of newer Aids medicines in developing countries. Several speakers at the start of the International Aids Conference in Toronto, Canada, suggested that the cost of Aids drugs is no longer a major barrier to access.
Reza de Wets’s imaginative landscape is instantly recognisable, writes Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon of the striking and lingering <i>Breathing In</i>.
"I write this as a non-Jewish South African, a free and silent observer living in Tel Aviv in the midst of post-war and pre-what-next. As far removed from the danger as I have been, living in cushy Tel Aviv and all, the war has simmered and bubbled over into a tragedy for me, opening discussions and wounds of friends and colleagues that I never knew existed."
With a six-person cast, <i>There’s No Room in This Bed</i> managed to squeeze in examinations of the power dynamics of personal relationships, but at times the piece battles to find its voice. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon reviews.
If the South African government had rolled out anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs as fast as it could have, 75 000 lives could have been saved in 2005 alone, the International Aids Conference in Toronto, Canada, heard on Thursday. Parliament was also criticised for not holding the government accountable for expenditure on HIV/Aids.
Claims that two South Africans — one working for the country’s embassy in Bujumbura and the other an intelligence agent from Pretoria — have been involved in concocting a fake coup in Burundi resurfaced recently. Fifteen opposition leaders were accused at the end of last month of plotting a coup against Pierre Nkurunziza’s almost year-old Burundian government.
Artist Joachim Schönfeldt handed his highly coded images to two writers in an experiment that explores crossing genres, multifocal scrutiny and questions the ways in which image and text relate. Muff Andersson takes a closer look.
There is a section of Zimbabwe’s beleaguered society that is literally smiling all the way to the bank ahead of Monday’s deadline, under which locals are supposed to have deposited the old currency to pave way for a new set of bearer cheques — and that is the country’s commercial traders. The looming deadline has provoked panic buying.
It was groundhog day for the South African government at the 16th International Aids Conference in Toronto this week, when a display of salad ingredients drew attention to the more controversial aspects of the national responses to HIV/Aids. The South African government stand was invaded by Treatment Action Campaign activists, some lying on the ground to symbolise South Africa’s Aids dead.
Naomi Campbell refers to Nelson Mandela, as is the custom among famous young women who have met him at least twice, as ”granddad”. Emma Brockes talks to Ms Campbell, currently in South Africa for the birthday of an old friend.