Micro Enterprise Alliance launches HIV/AIDS tool kit

The Micro Enterprise Alliance has launched an HIV/AIDS workplace programme for small enterprises.

'Living proof' dispels fear of anti-retroviral therapy

They have all pledged to take two pills twice daily or several capsules at night because the alternative would be to die. But many of the hundred people given anti-retrovirals at the Gugulethu day hospital were terrified at first. What if the drugs didn't work? What if the medicines killed them? After all, the president once said the drugs were poisonous.

New HIV prevention methods on the shelf

A chain of popular clothing stores in Namibia has introduced a customer-service programme to help tackle HIV/AIDS. Jet Stores recently added the provision of Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) for survivors of rape to its list of club benefits.

Business can gain from the falling price of treatment - part 6 of 8

Drug prices will drop, and companies with HIV/AIDS treatment programmes will benefit. Unless, that is, they have signed up to fixed-premium providers such as a medical aid - as most have.

End of a lonely road for an orphan of HIV/AIDS

He left his brightly-painted zinc shack on a rainy afternoon, for a new home with no leaks and where everyone gets three meals a day.

Health Minister lifts lid on HIV/AIDS planning

Health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has lifted the lid on aspects of the new HIV/AIDS treatment plan still being considered by the cabinet.

Cabinet gearing up for discussion on HIV/AIDS

It will be three to four weeks before the cabinet considers proposals for a new treatment plan for HIV/AIDS. The government has agreed with business and labour on a treatment plan, including anti-retrovirals for mineworkers, according to chief government spokesperson Joel Netshitenzhe.

The challenge of HIV in prisons

The jail doors that slam behind a newly arrived inmate are likely to open again at some point in the future and release the ex-convict back into society. The problem of HIV/AIDS in prison, and the wider issue of penal reform, are therefore questions that should concern us all.

Shock figures on HIV/AIDS in workplace

About 3% of the South African work-force - or about 500 000 people - could have full-blown AIDS by 2010, Department of Labour Guidelines on HIV/AIDS have forecast.

Global audience for HIV/AIDS project

Khayelitsha's anti-retroviral treatment plan for patients with HIV/AIDS is set for international exposure with the invitation by the World Bank to a University of Cape Town public health specialist to present details of the project to a world audience.