Into 2003 with HIVAN

The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) wishes all its users, associates, partners, friends and staff health and harmony for 2003.

Firms will have to report on HIV/AIDS risks

In the light of frightening new evidence that HIV/AIDS deaths and sickness are beginning to bite deep into the commercial heart of the country, listed companies in South Africa will from next year be required to focus on the disclosure of strategies and policies to manage the potential impact of HIV/AIDS on their activities.

December 2002 HIV/AIDS Public Health Journal Club

The last Journal Club meeting of the year featured Andy Gray and Dr Donnie Mcgrath from the Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine in Durban. Their presentations focused on recent clinical and logistical reviews of "Making ARVs available in resource-poor settings".

AIDS activists stage Black Christmas hunger strike

Johannesburg: For days, activists have been shivering and going hungry outside the offices of a drug company to fight discrimination against HIV-positive people. "We've tried picketing, demonstrating and negotiating and it has all fallen on deaf ears," said Joe Manciya, media officer for the National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAPWA.

Oprah's R160m Christmas gift to SA

South Africa has received a R160-million Christmas gift from Oprah Winfrey. She will have distributed her message of hope and about R70 million worth of gifts to 50 000 South African children by the time the dust settles on Sunday on the children's Christmas party she is co-hosting with Nelson Mandela at his home in Qunu.

African governments urged to support women

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged that more attention be devoted to the plight of African women as the continent battles the twin threats of famine and AIDS. This deadly combination "is threatening the backbone of Africa - the women who keep African societies going and whose work makes up the economic foundation of rural communities", Annan wrote in an opinion piece published in the International Herald Tribune [on 30-12-02].

Nutritional care and support training course

The Institute of Food, Nutrition and Family Sciences (IFNFS) at the University of Zimbabwe, in close collaboration with the International Agricultural Centre (IAC) will be holding a regional training course on nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS from 20 - 31 January 2003 in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Governments urged to support women in the struggle against HIV/AIDS

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged that more attention be devoted to the plight of African women as the continent battles the twin threats of famine and HIV/AIDS.

Pure way to fight HIV/AIDS

The bitter-sweet irony of our failure to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS is that the failure itself could be the catalyst to slow the killer epidemic.

UN envoy warns of HIV/AIDS rage

The United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa has warned of "a crescendo of rage and desperation which governments will ignore at their peril" in a hard-hitting new report on the spread of the pandemic on the continent.