Arusha to Durban AIDS Cycle Relay

Am AIDS Cycle Relay will begin in Arusha, Tanzania on 22 August 2002 and end in Durban on 21 September. The aim is to get people talking openly about the issues surrounding AIDS.

Until all life has equal value

It was fitting that the first plenary of AIDS2002 should be the second Jonathan Mann memorial lecture, powerfully delivered by Irene Fernandez of Malaysia. Fernandez needed special permission to leave Malaysia, and has been facing criminal indictment since 1996 for her work as a human rights activist. She is currently director of Tenaganita, an NGO campaigning for the rights of women and migrant workers.

Achmat's voice will be heard at AIDS meeting

Although ailing Treatment Action Campaign leader Zackie Achmat will not address the world's biggest conference on HIV and AIDS in Barcelona on Wednesday in person, his voice will be heard.

Conflict fuelling spread of HIV/AIDS

Conflict is a root cause of the spread of HIV/AIDS, and it is promoting up the transmission of the virus, says the international aid agency, Save the Children.

Achmat: Stop counterproductive AIDS debate

South African HIV/AIDS activist Zackie Achmat has urged the world to immediately lay to rest the counterproductive debate between AIDS prevention or treatment.

When should you start HIV therapy?

The main measures of the stage of HIV infection are the CD4 cell count, the viral load (VL) and the clinical picture. It is on these that the strategies for commencement of antiretroviral therapy (ART) are based. But one has to take other factors into account as well.

Challenge of treatment access in Africa

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has thrown down a challenge to the international community at the AIDS 2002 conference in Barcelona this week, calling for three million people to have access to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy by 2005.

New commitment urged to fight HIV/AIDS

Three themes dominated the XIV International AIDS Conference in Barcelona this week: treatment, funding and the impact of the epidemic on women. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Carol Bellamy told the Conference that AIDS had a human face, and it was that of a young woman. Figures show that AIDS disproportionately affects women, especially in Africa.

Graca packs a 'punch' in Barcelona

"You worked together to end apartheid. Do the same to conquer AIDS." That is the message from Mozambican activist Graca Machel to world leaders at the 14th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, Spain.

KZN Minister upbeat about UN AIDS donation

KwaZulu-Natal Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize says he is not aware of anything that might jeopardise the province from obtaining a R600-million donation from the UN Global Fund for Malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS.