Yacht sets overland course for AIDS awareness

Robert Swan has crossed both poles on foot and hasn't stopped walking the extra mile for the environment ever since.

HIV/AIDS patients connected by Internet

Flu medication can be confusing enough when you're having to take three different kinds at separate times of day.

Focus on lack of access to HIV/AIDS drugs

One could be forgiven for wondering why a tiny minority of HIV-positive Kenyans have access to anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) to keep themselves alive, or to be precise, 6,000 of an estimated two million who need the same drugs.

HIV/AIDS chain reaction threatens sustainable development

The head of the United Nations HIV/AIDS programme has warned that meaningful sustainable development cannot be achieved if the HIV/AIDS epidemic is allowed to devastate human resources and capacities.

Care of the Caregiver - some practical measures

The final session of a national workshop on HIV/AIDS Management and Care, hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal's School of Nursing in July 2002, dealt with "Care of the Caregiver".

HIV/AIDS breakthrough predicted this decade

This is the decade in which the world's scientists will find a cure for HIV/AIDS and it will become a vanquished disease in the same way that diphtheria was conquered.

Food crisis aggravates spread of HIV/AIDS

Southern Africa's food crisis is taking place in the context of a severe HIV/AIDS epidemic, and coping mechanisms that previously saved lives may now facilitate the spread of the disease, according to a report by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Mission of hope

On a night in 1991, Jonas Njilo was on his way to the plantation where he worked. A group of people pounced upon him and tied him to a railway track where he lay in terror, waiting for the train that would smash his life – he lost both legs and an arm.

Remove fear and focus on hope - Standard Bank helps Orphans of AIDS Trust

It is time to stop looking at statistics and start acting against HIV/AIDS. This was the message of provincial Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize, speaking at a function at which R500 000 was donated to the Orphans of AIDS Trust by Standard Bank.

South African National Children's Forum on HIV/AIDS - Report

The National Children's Forum on HIV/AIDS was held in Cape Town in August 2001. Ninety HIV-affected children (between the ages of seven and 18 years) participated in the event, together with 18 of their caregivers and a number of representatives from national government and Parliament. The aim of the Forum was to provide these children with the opportunity to have their voices heard and for their experiences and recommendations to inform the drafting and implementation of relevant policies and legislation.