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PRETTY FLY FOR A WHITE GUY: Francois Venter is a big rock climber who once drank tequila with the virologist rockstar Dexter Holland of The Offspring. He’s also one of the country’s leading HIV researchers. (Delywn Verasamy)
AIDS DENIALISM

HIV research: Professor screw it, let’s do it

Francois Venter talks about his unorthodox inaugural lecture, his work during the Aids crisis and his shoot-from-the-hip fix of our healthcare system

  • Sean Christie
17 min read
No service: The US government’s funding cuts have put further strain on already overloaded clinics and forced some to close their doors. (Delwyn Verasamy)
CIVIL SOCIETY SUPPORT

NGOs count the cost of lost United States funding

Jobs have been lost and organisations across South Africa and the continent are closing while others are barely surviving the financial crisis

  • Lyse Comins
7 min read
The Health and Human Rights Oral History Project’s video testimonies that capture three decades of health activism from around the world, might provide a blueprint for the next wave of HIV activism. (Bhekisisa)
AIDS DENIALISM
Video

Fighting for funds: A new era of HIV activism

Instead of the Aids denialism of decades past, it’s US funding cuts that could lead to up to 300 000 more HIV infections in the next four years. Activists like Sisonke Msimang…

  • Ida Jooste
9 min read