Managing HIV/AIDS is part of new degree
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Posted: Friday, October 18, 2002
Published in The Sowetan, 23 September 2002
The battle against HIV/AIDS is being fought on many fronts, including primary intervention, appropriate screening and surveillance, the care of people infected and affected, as well as research to develop a vaccine, says Professor Jan du Toit of Stellenbosch University's Department of Industrial Psychology.
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Challenges of qualitative fieldwork research in the HIV/AIDS Context
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Posted: Tuesday, November 26, 2002
Judith King.HIVAN Media Team. 25 November 2002.
A three-day workshop, co-hosted by HIVAN (Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking) and the Africa Centre, was held at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban during November 2002 for fieldwork researchers confronted by the challenges inherent in working within communities affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Learning Positively
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Posted: Monday, December 02, 2002
29 October 2002. Republished courtesy of IRIN PlusNews.
Situated in an informal settlement about 30-km east of South Africa's main city of Johannesburg, Dan Pharasi Primary is a state-run school coming to grips with the HIV/AIDS epidemic in its community.
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HEARD - AIDS Brief - Education
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Posted: Friday, December 06, 2002
As part of the current USAID project "Operationalising HIV/AIDS Issues For Development", which commenced early in 1998, HEARD identified a need for a much wider, expanded and more detailed series of documents.
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Health Promotion through Entertainment Education
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Posted: Friday, January 03, 2003
Culture, Communication and Media Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Ever wondered why "Soul City" and "Yizo Yizo" are amongst South Africa's most highly rated TV dramas? Or, what the relationship is between entertainment and education? Or whether people can actually change the way they think and live simply by watching television? Did you know that a study in the USA showed that serial dramas are the number-one source of health information?
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Durban conference on demographic and socio-economic impact of AIDS
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Posted: Thursday, February 06, 2003
HEARD, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
Notice of a Scientific Meeting to be held from 26th to 28th March 2003 in Durban, South Africa, entitled: "Empirical Evidence for the Demographic and Socio-Economic Impact of AIDS".
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Durban man's legacy of love
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Posted: Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Greg Arde.Independent on Saturday, 1 February 2003. Republished courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd
Victor Daitz was a quiet Durban businessman who chose a life out of the limelight and was not one to boast about his achievements or his wealth. This could have been different, because the man who saw out the last of his 86 years in a flat in Cato Road, Durban, was worth more than R100 million. Daitz died in 1999, and this week hundreds of children in Ndwedwe, a rural area about 60k north of Durban, joined the many underprivileged who have celebrated his legacy.
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Respected academics make united call for access to treatment
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Posted: Friday, February 21, 2003
HIVAN Media Office
On 16th February 2003, Professor Shula Marks - OBE FBA (Professor Emerita, SOAS and Senior Distinguished Research Fellow, School for Advanced Study, University of London), submitted the following letter to Londons The Observer newspaper. Co-signed by a number of respected academics concerned about the welfare of South Africa and its citizens, this letter was also faxed to SAs Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, and Deputy-President Jacob Zuma in his capacity as Chair of the SA National AIDS Council (SANAC).
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Radio show gets youth talking about HIV/AIDS in Namibia
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Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2003
4 March 2003. Republished courtesy of IRIN PlusNews.
With about half of all new adult HIV/AIDS infections taking place among young people, a recently launched radio programme is encouraging young Namibians to let their voices be heard in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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Over 55 KZN teachers died every month in 2000
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Posted: Friday, April 11, 2003
by Kerry Cullinan.Republished courtesy of Health-e News 09-04-2003
Over 680 teachers in KwaZulu-Natal - more than 55 a month - died in-service in 2000. Most died from unspecified illnesses, and the average age at the time of death was 36.
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