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SANDF gets new HIV policy |
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January 26, 2010 |
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Johannesburg - The announcement in late 2009 that the government had approved a new HIV/AIDS policy in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) was widely welcomed by AIDS and human rights lobbyists as long overdue.
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A day in the life of a sex worker |
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January 22, 2010 |
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Johannesburg - In the street below the brightly lit windows of multinational corporate headquarters and exclusive townhouses in Illovo, an upmarket suburb in Johannesburg, the trees cast dark shadows where some of the most vulnerable young women in South Africa do one of the riskiest jobs in the world. They are sex workers.
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Turning the tide against drug-resistant TB |
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October 09, 2009 |
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Umsinga - Three years ago, the Church of Scotland Hospital at Tugela Ferry, in the rural Umsinga area of South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province, was the focus of international media attention as the epicentre of a deadly outbreak of extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
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State-of-the-art labs offer hope for poor communities |
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July 22, 2009 |
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Cape Town - Scientists attending the 5th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2009) visited Gugulethu where they were shown how state-of-the-art HIV laboratory services could be delivered in the most basic settings.
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Footballers join AIDS fight |
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May 05, 2009 |
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Witbank - After a demanding training session on the soccer pitch, the entire Black Aces football team have squeezed into a small, stuffy room at the club's headquarters in Witbank, a town northeast of Johannesburg, South Africa, for training of a different kind.
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The burden of drug-resistant TB in Swaziland |
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March 25, 2009 |
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Siteki - Siphiwe*, 14, has not been to school for two years but can still fit into her uniform. She has a strain of tuberculosis (TB) that is resistant to most first-line drugs and can take two years or more to treat, but she stopped taking her medication four months ago.
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OneLove campaign could lower infection rate |
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March 09, 2009 |
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Johannesburg - 2009 might just be the year that HIV prevention finally takes centre stage in South Africa. Years of workshops and speeches in which AIDS experts and politicians talked about the need to prioritise prevention are, at last, translating into action.
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Sexy new HIV prevention campaign for gays |
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March 05, 2009 |
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Cape Town - Dance music pumps from large speakers while a half dozen shirtless young men serve drinks at a bar bathed in pink light. It is the last weekend of Gay Pride in Cape Town, South Africa, and men of all ages have come to a "fetish party" to launch a safe-sex campaign, "Play Nice", targeting men who have sex with men (MSM).
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Fikile Mabuza, "I would love to have another baby - I would love to have twins" |
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January 28, 2009 |
Johannesburg - Fikile Mabuza*, a young woman living in Johannesburg, South Africa, found out she was HIV-positive in 1998. She is about to get married to her high school sweetheart. Having been together for so long, her fianci - who is HIV-negative - wasn't surprised when Mabuza said she was pregnant.
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HIV pregnancy, stigma and ignorance |
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January 26, 2009 |
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Johannesburg - For many women, pregnancy is a time of anticipation and celebration, but for those living positively it can be frustrating when their status - and not their pregnancy - takes centre stage. Being pregnant and positive often comes with its own brand of stigma.
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