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/ 29 November 2005
It was very clever of the Hyundai marketing folk to have a few models of the outgoing Sonata in the showroom with the new Sonata, simply because the new one is a revolutionary departure from the old in just about every aspect. The exterior styling is the most notable improvement.
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/ 29 November 2005
South Africa’s real gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices on a quarter-on-quarter seasonally annualised and adjusted basis rose by 4,2% in the third quarter of 2005 from a revised 5,4% (original estimate was a 4,8% gain) in the second quarter, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday.
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/ 29 November 2005
Jomo Sono might have been expected to hit the ceiling when the Premier Soccer League on Monday announced the rain-postponed league game between his Jomo Cosmos team and Golden Arrows had been rescheduled for Tuesday — a mere 96 hours before the Coca-Cola Cup final against Supersport United in Polokwane on Saturday.
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/ 29 November 2005
Scouts all over Southern Africa will observe World Aids Day in a collaborative initiative to fight the rapid spread and devastating effects of HIV/Aids. The youth are more likely to bear the brunt of the HIV/Aids pandemic. No one knows this better than the South African Scout Association, an organisation that is focused on the youth.
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/ 29 November 2005
New research from South Africa shows HIV prevalence among pregnant women has reached almost 30% — its highest level to date. These statistics show that more South Africans are contracting HIV, despite the policies the government has put in place to prevent infection.
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/ 29 November 2005
Businesses can no longer ignore HIV/Aids in the workplace if they want to continue to be a profitable enterprise, Aids experts have warned. "It is not only right for moral reasons for businesses to have an HIV/Aids policy in place, but it also makes business sense," said Scott Billy, a counselling and testing volunteer.
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/ 29 November 2005
HIV stands for "human immunodeficiency virus". It is a retrovirus. This means that the virus uses the body’s own cells to reproduce itself. While several theories exist, the origin of this virus is still unclear. We explain how HIV is transmitted and how it makes people sick.
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/ 29 November 2005
BMW initiated a major proactive campaign against HIV/Aids in 2000 with the launch of its HIV/Aids policy. The purpose of the campaign is to reduce the effect of the disease on employees, their families and the company. The programme focuses on self-responsibility and taking ownership of the disease by knowing one’s status.
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/ 29 November 2005
Picture yourself as an HIV-positive teenager who logs on to the loveLife website for advice. Firstly, you would find the devastating (and untrue) information that after 10 years of anti-retroviral treatment "you will eventually die from Aids-related causes or the side effects of the drugs".
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/ 29 November 2005
More than 60% of people infected with HIV/Aids call Africa their home — and Southern Africa remains the epicentre of the global Aids epidemic, according to the United Nations’s report on the pandemic that was released recently. Despite some light points, the UNAids report paints a bleak picture of a region where the virus is having a devastating toll on human lives.