On Monday Uganda became the latest African country to begin distributing free antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to HIV-positive people.
This week De Beers announced it would start making antiretroviral treatment for HIV and Aids available to its employees.
Former president Nelson Mandela on Sunday proposed a radical challenge to South Africa’s Aids policy.
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/ 31 January 2002
The TAC has called on the Eastern Cape to administer ARV drug nevirapine to HIV-positive mothers.
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/ 13 December 2001
Western Cape Premier Peter Marais confirmed that the province will continue to provide ARVs, including nevirapine, to HIV-positive pregnant women.
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/ 15 November 2001
Badges costing R5 will be sold at Absa branches to raise money for children affected by HIV/Aids.
Zo Wicomb’s new novel will be launched this week. She spoke to Jane Rosenthal David’s Story (Kwela), the new novel by South African-born Zo Wicomb her first fiction since her acclaimed story sequence You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987) has been well worth waiting for. It began as a conventional novel on the […]
Barry Streek The people of the remote Richtersveld area near the Namibian border have lost the first round of their long legal battle to reclaim their land. The people of Richtersveld instituted an action in the Land Claims Court against the state diamond company Alexkor and the government in terms of the Restitution of Land […]
Some fear that Carlos Cardoso’s murder might never be fully investigated as ‘many more crimes’ would be uncovered Rehad Desai It has been more than three months since the assassination of Mozambique’s leading investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso. Last week the minister of police announced he had captured the hit men responsible. The announcement was followed […]
With the HIV/Aids pandemic on the increase, the university’s dismissal of the head of its Population Research Unit has raised questions about where its priorities lie David Macfarlane Try to make sense of this scenario. A liberal university is situated at the heart of one of South Africa’s highest HIV infection rate regions. One of […]