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Help guide policy on HIV/AIDS and children

Posted: ?Friday, May 03, 2002
The Department of Health

The Department of Health has commissioned the Children's Institute at UCT to conduct research and develop guidelines for improving health, social development, and educational services to children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. The guidelines are aimed particularly at services for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS or at risk of becoming orphans.


State rolls out new spin on Nevirapine

Posted: ?Friday, May 03, 2002
John Battersby, The Cape Times, April 30, 2002. Reprinted courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd.

The government has mounted a campaign to dispel the impression that its appeal against a High Court judgment instructing it to provide Nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant women indicates a bias against anti-retrovirals.


Code of good practice: Key aspects of HIV/AIDS and employment

Posted: ?Friday, May 10, 2002
SA Government Gazette, 1 December 2000/1, Vol 426, No 6942

Code of good practice: Key aspects of HIV/AIDS and employment set out in the schedule is issued by the Minister of Labour, on the advise of the Commission for Employment Equity, in terms of Section 54 (1)(a) of the Employment Equity Act, 1988, and by NEDLAC in terms of section 203 (1)(a) of the Labour Relations Act, 1995. (Regulation Gazette, Vol 426, No 6942)


National protocols in place for ARVs for rape survivors

Posted: ?Thursday, June 06, 2002
South African Health Department, 29 May 2002.

On 17 April Cabinet concluded that anti-retroviral drugs should be offered as an option to survivors of sexual assault.


Interim Findings on the National PMTCT Pilot Sites: Lessons and Recommendations - February 2002

Posted: ?Friday, June 07, 2002
SA Department of Health

BACKGROUND TO THE REPORT: This report primarily describes the process, progress and extent of service implementation in the 18 pilot PMTCT sites, so as to help improve the effectiveness and efficiency of PMTCT services and inform any planned expansion of the programme. Data and information is based on discussions and interviews with managers, coordinators and clinicians; site visits; routine statistics; document reviews; and attendance of national PMTCT steering committee meetings.


Draft National Policy on Testing for HIV

Posted: ?Friday, June 07, 2002
ME Tshabalala-Msimang, Department of Health.

Department of Health: National Policy for Health Act, 1990 (Act No. 116 of 1990)


SA is winning the war on AIDS, says Manto

Posted: ?Tuesday, June 11, 2002
June 10 2002. Reprinted courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd.

The HIV infection rate among young South Africans has decreased dramatically, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Monday.


SA government survey shows stabilised HIV prevalence

Posted: ?Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Reposted courtesy IRIN PlusNews, 11 June 2002

The number of HIV infections in South Africa appears to have stabilised, according to the results of an annual survey announced by the government on 10 June 2002.


Asmal proposes education as a social vaccine against HIV

Posted: ?Tuesday, June 18, 2002
HIVAN Media Office

In his address to the South African Education Ministry's first national conference on HIV/AIDS (entitled "An Education Coalition against HIV/AIDS"), Education Minister Professor Kader Asmal put forward the concept of education as a "social vaccine" against the spread of HIV infection.


The voice of youth with disabilities

Posted: ?Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Published in The Mail & Guardian, 14 - 20 June 2002

The Office on the Status of Disabled Persons (CSDP) in the Presidency has launched a campaign around Youth Day 2002 to encourage young people with disabilities to speak out about their lives. The campaign is part of a national awareness plan to support implementation of government's Integrated National Disability Strategy and to meet its objectives in the areas of public education and awareness. It is encouraging disabled youth to share their experiences of disability in the way they feel most comfortable - through words in any language or even through pictures.


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