Agenda Website Awarded for E-quality

The Agenda Feminist Media Project was recently awarded a Special Mention by the World Summit Awards (WSA) as one of the 25 most outstanding e-Content website in the world.

The HIV/AIDS Challenge in Africa - HEARD OSSREA Workshop

Following an Introduction to the workshop proceedings by Gavin George from UKZNs Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), the welcome and opening addresses were delivered by Prof Alan Whiteside, Executive Director of HEARD, and Dr Alfred Nhema, Executive Secetrary of OSSREA, respectively.

Annotated Bibliography - Gender, HIV/AIDS and Development

One of the most important developments in the global fight against HIV/AIDS is the recognition of the role of gender in fueling the spread and increasing the burden of the epidemic. This document compiles key online resources that describe the current understanding of, and responses to, the effects of gender on HIV/AIDS at the international level. Resources were selected to provide a balanced approach that addresses both mens and womens concerns, vulnerabilities, challenges, and responses to gender and HIV/AIDS issues. A special focus on gender-based violence is included because of the tremendous impact of sexual violence on risk of HIV infection.

You, Me and HIV

You, Me, & HIV is a book about HIV/AIDS for readers in the early teenage years. Developed for distribution in South Africa, the book is available free of charge in English, Afrikaans (Ek, Jy & MIV), and isiZulu (Wena, Nami & HIV).

Mobile clinics offer HIV testing to truckers

When a long distance truck driver stops at the Crosscape Express truck depot in Pinetown, Kwa-Zulu Natal, this week, he will have the option of getting tested for HIV/AIDS - and could even receive counselling.

A place of rest in the depths of despair

Catholic bishop Kevin Dowling, a native of Pretoria, has been working in the Rustenberg area since 1991 and has personally experienced the pain and suffering of the people he serves.

Microbicide research gets a big boost

The long struggle to get women to protect themselves against the HI-Virus received a major boost this week, when two global pharmaceutical companies signed agreements enabling researchers to create a microbicide using their promising anti-AIDS compounds.

Rural Eastern Cape HIV/AIDS treatment reports success

An anti-AIDS treatment initiative launched two years ago in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, could soon reach every HIV-positive person in need of antiretrovirals in the rural town of Lusikisiki.

Big brother approach to HIV/AIDS in business

Big South African businesses with successful workplace HIV/AIDS testing and treatment facilities have teamed up with the World Economic Forum (WEF) in an attempt to offer similar services to smaller firms.

Small businesses can help fight HIV/AIDS

The issue of HIV/AIDS no longer surprises us. We've grown too accustomed to reading, talking and hearing about HIV/AIDS. But we are still unsure on how to deal with the epidemic as it reaches into all aspects of our work life - the failing health of colleagues and their families; increasing absenteeism; and the impact on the organisation's performance and bottom line.