Letters in the latest issue of the journal Aids tell contrasting tales about HIV treatment in developing countries.
South Africa is perfecting cheaper and more effective HIV tests, according to reports on diagnostic tests presented at a conference.
A child counselling centre at the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital is making a difference to HIV-positive and Aids-infected children.
It is ordinary people who are casualties of the government’s denialist Aids policy.
A range of politicians has crossed the floor to join or start new political homes. On radio talk shows and on the letters pages of newspapers, they are not floor-crossers, but double-crossers.
Cape plc will pay out only a third of the amount promised to the victims of its local asbestos-mining operations. The dramatic reduction will, Meeran warned, prevent any compensation for future victims of asbestos pollution or other exposure at Cape’s abandoned mines. However, South African investment holding company Gencor is supplementing the settlement
The charge that Iraeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ”ordered the death and destruction of an ethnic group within his nation-state domain” and ”continues to pursue a policy of ethnic cleansing against them” is a serious misrepresentation of Israel’s actions and intentions.
Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Valli Moosa seems set to challenge black empowerment fat cats as he considers ways to put an end to perlemoen poaching. Black empowerment companies have acquired big quotas as part of transformation in the fishing industry.
Suspended Strategic Fuel Fund chief executive Dr Renosi Mokate has been found guilty on most charges flowing from disciplinary steps brought against her in August last year
Recent efforts to eliminate an alien invader between Pietermaritzburg and Durban have left residents and environmentalists in a froth. The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Water and Forestry Affairs has sprayed a broad-spectrum glysophate herbicide on Hammarsdale dam
In its 10-year existence about 7 000 complaints have been laid with the Broadcasting Complaints Commission. The one on December 13 was the first about, essentially, censorship. Most of the rest have focused on offensive sex and bad language
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/ 25 February 2003
What the London Agreement exposes clearly is that the Third World debt trap is an instrument of deliberate policy. At the stroke of a First World pen, things could be very different. A contemporary London Agreement would go a long way towards freeing the Third World from its debt bondage
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/ 20 February 2003
So what is ultra-leftism? The label has been used without pausing to provide a serious analysis or substantive definition of social movements and ”ultra-leftism”. Ultra-leftism tends not to understand the struggle as process. Everything is immediate, all-or-nothing, victory or sell-out
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/ 10 February 2003
An out-of-court settlement between Gencor and asbestos victims last week does not cover cleaning up places where people live and children play.
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/ 5 February 2003
About 375 670 South Africans are expected to die from HIV/Aids this year, an increase of more than 30% from the estimated Aids-related deaths in 2000.
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/ 26 September 2002
Three million Aids deaths can be averted and more than 2,5-million HIV infections prevented by 2015 through voluntary testing.
A newspaper quoted Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang as saying that drugs used to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child are poisonous.
The Treatment Action Campaign wants to act against provinces that don’t want to roll out the programme to prevent mother-to-child-transmission of HIV.
Statistics South Africa is conducting a mortality study into ‘secondary’ causes of death in an attempt to assess the true impact of HIV/Aids.
More than 40 000 of 350 000 South African teachers are living with HIV/Aids, says a World Bank report.
SA was still faced with the problem of an unpatriotic press whose focus on the crime problem was deterring investors, according to Nelson Mandela.
The health minister is to petition the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal against a compulsion order issued by the Pretoria High Court.
The late presidential spokesperson Parks Mankahlana did die of an Aids-related ailment, says a document that is being sent out by the ANC.
Gay men receive little attention in sexual health and HIV/Aids programmes even though there is a high risk of HIV infection.
The trucking industry, whose rates in the spread of HIV/Aids in Southern Africa are among the worst, is being targeted.
Former President Nelson Mandela is being careful not to offend the Thabo Mbeki with his comments on Aids.
Former president Nelson Mandela on Thursday praised Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa for his stance on the provision of an anti-Aids drug.
Former president Nelson Mandela on Sunday proposed a radical challenge to South Africa’s Aids policy.
Nelson Mandela refused to make a public plea for the safety of the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> correspondent Daniel Pearl.
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/ 28 February 2002
The UN International Narcotics Control Board says that the number of people injecting heroin in SA has risen by 40% over the past three years.
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/ 21 February 2002
An integrated HIV/Aids research entity has been proposed by Wits, which will bring together all the research work being undertaken at the university.
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/ 31 January 2002
The TAC has called on the Eastern Cape to administer ARV drug nevirapine to HIV-positive mothers.