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Sex education - the ugly stepchild in teacher training |
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May 22, 2008 |
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Johannesburg - It's almost noon in Zola, one of the rougher neighbourhoods in Soweto, Johannesburg's biggest township. Kids grow up fast and hard here in the midst of poverty - ambition for some is merely to die with something more than what they were born with.
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Hannie Dlamini: "You need to trust your loved ones" |
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May 19, 2008 |
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Manzini - Hannie Thulasiwe Dlamini is approaching 40, a feat most people in Swaziland considered impossible when he became the first person in the country to publicly declare his HIV-positive status in 1995.
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AFRICA: Getting old on ARVs |
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May 09, 2008 |
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Johannesburg - The fourth most common cause of death in HIV-positive South Africans is now hypertension; diabetes comes in at number six.
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Thembi Ngubane: "This is Thembi and everyone has to hear it." |
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May 05, 2008 |
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Johannesburg - Thembi Ngubane, from Khayelitsha, a township in Cape Town, discovered she was HIV-positive when she was 16 years old.
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MOZAMBIQUE: Art imitates life |
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March 12, 2008 |
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Maputo - "I don't know why you had to go to the hospital," the woman's husband yells furiously. His pregnant wife defends her decision to go to the hospital instead of just trusting the traditional healer. "But I had to know about my health and the health of my baby," she argues. At the hospital, the wife discovers she is HIV positive.
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Former child soldiers at risk of HIV |
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February 18, 2008 |
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Nairobi - Children across Africa are emerging from conflicts in which they have served as soldiers or the 'wives' of rebel commanders and find themselves in a new, unfamiliar world. Usually poor and often without family, many resort to coping mechanisms that put them at risk of contracting HIV.
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"Johannesburg is a place of gold, but it's not easy to get that gold, even if you dig" |
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January 24, 2008 |
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Johannesburg - Linda Mbiko*, a 36-year-old widow, crossed the border from Zimbabwe into South Africa, hidden in the back of a truck. She was fleeing poverty and a public health system that had failed to help her HIV-positive daughter. In Johannesburg, she believed she could earn enough money to send some home and find treatment for herself and her child, but without documentation she found the city a hostile place.
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Solving treatment bottlenecks |
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January 04, 2008 |
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Mthatha - The monthly "Improvement Meeting" at Qumbu Health Centre, 50km from the Eastern Cape province town of Mthatha, is supposed to start at 9am, but rarely starts before 10am.
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SA business efforts ‘not enough' |
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November 05, 2007 |
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New infection in school leavers is the hottest part of the HIV fire, and requires more than businesses' current offerings of help, writes David Harrison.
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Design of effective HIV prevention trials the first hurdle |
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October 19, 2007 |
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Johannesburg - We've long known how to protect ourselves from HIV, but the options are limited and not available to everyone: women who are powerless to refuse sex or insist on condoms, and can only trust that their partner will be faithful, pay the heaviest price. In sub-Saharan Africa, those between the ages of 15 and 24 are four times more likely to become infected than men of the same age.
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