Rockefeller money to help orphans of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Two grey-haired men sit chatting about philanthropy at Gallagher's Estate in Midrand, Johannesburg - one 87 years old and the other 85.

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.

State places HIV/AIDS advertisements in bid to stop protests

As HIV/AIDS activists promise to intensify their civil disobedience campaign, the government has set out to counter a potentially embarrassing standoff with the Treatment Action Campaign by taking out full-page advertisements in Sunday newspapers.

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.

Legal vacuum hampers health for all

The common lament running through the South African Health Review (SAHR) for 2002 is government’s failure to provide the country with the legal tools to guide the transformation of healthcare services.

Research head calls for an HIV/AIDS 'statesman'

Southern Africa needs statesmen, not politicians, to deal with HIV/AIDS, says Alan Whiteside, director for Health and Economics and Research Division (HEARD) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

South Africa to produce its own HIV/AIDS drugs

South Africa's efforts to manufacture its own affordable generic anti-retroviral medicines against HIV/AIDS and other epidemics has at last been kick-started and the first pills are scheduled to roll out by next year.

Chief challenges HIV/AIDS stigma

A Swazi chief shrugged off the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS and admitted at the weekend he was HIV-positive, surprising and pleasing activists battling the silence that often surrounds the disease.

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).

Number of Cape orphans of HIV/AIDS 'will double'

Cape Town already has 21 000 HIV/AIDS orphans, and this number will more than double in three years.