International coalition on anti-retrovirals launched

An international coalition to expand access to anti-retroviral drugs in developing countries was launched on Thursday by the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNAIDS and more than 50 other institutions.

Trust Fund aids KZN orphans

Less than a year after it was established, the Orphans of AIDS Trust Fund handed over its first grants to eight worthy organisations at a function held at Independent Newspapers early in December 2002.

Health Promotion through Entertainment Education

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?

Sex-workers mobilise to fight HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS says

While sex-workers have been one of the groups most affected by HIV/AIDS, they have been mobilised and empowered to become leading advocates and educators on HIV prevention and care, according to Aurorita Mendoza, Prevention and Vulnerability Adviser at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

SA Port Operations funds orphans of AIDS

South African Port Operations (SAPO) advanced its "HIV/AIDS Lifestyle Management" policy recently with the donation of a large sum of money and clothing to the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Social Welfare. SAPO announced its Lifestyle Management Programme, aimed at reaching out to the community, earlier in 2002.

AIDS Trust Fund gets R195 000

The Orphans of AIDS Trust Fund has started 2003 on a high note, with R195 000 being made available to an organisation looking after orphans of AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal. The Trust received the money from the Grintek Group for funding to a community-based organisation. It will be awarded to a single organisation and disbursed over a three-year period.

TAC backs threat of mass action with show of muscle

The "Stand Up For Our Lives" March, the largest-yet mobilisation for the rights of people living with HIV in this country, and which took place on Friday (14-2-03), was led by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). What is the TAC and how has it managed to mobilise such solidarity?

HIVAN and KZNCAN launch HIV/AIDS Directory

In their ongoing effort to support and strengthen community initiatives to combat the HIV/AIDS crisis in KwaZulu-Natal, the Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) and the KwaZulu-Natal Church AIDS Network (KZNCAN), have collaborated to produce the HIVAN/KZNCAN 2003 HIV/AIDS Directory.

HIVAN hosts MRC KZN AIDS Forum Mini-site

The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) and the MRC KZN AIDS Forum have joined forces in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The two organisations have pooled their resources in order to further facilitate networking between organisations and individuals working at the coalface of the struggle against HIV/AIDS.

Morals and messaging in the fight against HIV/AIDS

"We need to seek moral positions rather than to be moralists," said David Harrison, CEO of the loveLife anti-AIDS campaign, "starting where young people are at - and not where we expect them to be." Harrison was addressing an HIV/AIDS researchers and religious leaders' forum held in Durban during March 2003, co-hosted by the World Council on Religion and Peace (WCRP) and the Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN).