Women Empowerment: Africa's AIDS Vaccine?

With 55% of those who are HIV-positive in sub-Saharan Africa being women, all the funding, treatment, information, care and support interventions imaginable will be of little effect in reversing the spread of HIV infection and resultant disease implications, unless women are empowered with equal status, both socially and economically. This argument is not new, but Samantha Willan's seminar presentation held on 18 October 2002, hosted by the Gender Studies Department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Durban campus, put the statistics, scenarios and strategy recommendations into clear and compelling perspective.

Tufte Seminar: HIV/AIDS and the Challenges of Communication

Because every individual and organisation has a different and equally valid perspective on the HIV/AIDS epidemic - and there is no aspect of life that HIV/AIDS does not affect in some way - participatory approaches are needed in order to find viable solutions for prevention education strategies.

'Today's virgins, tomorrow's HIV/AIDS victims'

Most South African teenagers have sex for the first time at the age of 14 or 15 and half of all today's 15-year-olds in South Africa and Zimbabwe will eventually die of AIDS.

Hospice model for integrated community-based home care

The report "Integrated Community-based Home Care (ICHC) in South Africa: A review of the model implemented by the Hospice Association of South Africa", compiled by The Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) on behalf of The POLICY Project, has been released.

Combating child labour and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa

The HIV/AIDS pandemic adds a new and tragic dimension to the worst forms of child labour. With the death of one or both parents from HIV/AIDS, millions of children have been orphaned. Millions more will be. Many of these children will find security in the households of relatives. Others, however, will drop out of school, looking for work to survive.

We're changing our sexual behaviour

South Africans have modified their sexual behaviour in the face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the Nelson Mandela/Human Sciences Research Council study of HIV/AIDS had found.

HIV/AIDS - the great equaliser

HIV/AIDS is not just a disease affecting the poor, the young or certain population groups and provinces in South Africa.

Significant changes in sexual behaviour

There have been significant changes in sexual behaviour in South Africa over the past four years, a new study has found. According to the study, condom use among sexually active youth was high, with 57 percent of males and 46 percent of females having used a condom the last time they had sexual intercourse.

Unified bid to step up AIDS treatment

The government faces its biggest challenge yet as South Africa's powerful lobby of health-care providers joins forces with AIDS activists to thrash out a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan for the country, including a roll-out of anti-retroviral drugs.

SWAZILAND: Private sector avoids cost of AIDS

The HIV/AIDS pandemic has not yet affected the profitability and productivity of Swazi businesses, as the burden has been passed onto households and the community, a new report has found.