Stigma and HIV Prevention: The Way Forward

The final session of the 2003 series of WCRP-HIVAN Fora for faith-based organisations and HIV/AIDS researchers took place on 9 December, with Rabbi Michael Standfield, Professor Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala and Dr Shakira Cassim as guest speakers. Their respective presentations centred on positive approaches to dealing with the stigma and discrimination surrounding HIV/AIDS, and communicating for "Second Generation" HIV prevention measures.

'A great heart has ceased to beat'

Jocular and much-admired Yfm deejay Fana Khaba, who announced his HIV-positive status several months ago, has died.

loveLife campaign to focus on the future

LoveLife's national HIV prevention programme for youth this week launched its 2004 billboard campaign, and gone are the sexually provocative billboards of some of its previous campaigns.

Students cycle on epic journey to raise funding for orphans of HIV/AIDS

A team of energetic cyclists set off at dawn today (16 January, 2004) on a challenging cross-country journey to raise money for orphans left destitute by HIV/AIDS.

Country Innovation Day - HIV/AIDS: Turning Ideas Into Action

The Development Marketplace €“ a global competition held annually in Washington, DC for innovative ideas €“ aims at advancing the fight against poverty. The competition is open to NGOs, businesses, academia, foundations and government. The World Bank and its development partners award start-up funds to projects that bring people and institutions together and have the best promise of moving from concept to concrete results.

Stimulating Research on HIV/AIDS and Population Studies in Southern Africa

With support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the University of KwaZulu-Natal has extended and refined its grants programme to stimulate research in Population Studies and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa over the 2004-2005 periods.

Transitions to Adulthood: Gender, Economic and Social Poverty, Youth, and HIV/AIDS in South Africa

South Africa has been disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Although the country has fewer than 1% of the world€™s 15 to 24-year-olds, it accounts for roughly 14% of all global HIV infections among this age group. Young women are at particular risk: for every two infected 15 to 24-year-old males in South Africa, there are five infected females of the same age. Because of biological and social factors, young women are at higher risk for HIV infection than young men.

Students taught how to play the game safely

Thousands of young people fresh out of school are about to enter a whole new world of campus life with lots of partying - and a lethal cocktail of sex, drugs, booze - and HIV/AIDS.

Local firms to produce anti-AIDS drug

Local pharmaceutical giant MSD appears set to allow local generic pharmaceutical manufacturers to produce its patented anti-AIDS drugs.

Anti-AIDS drugs to be made available to rape survivors

Rape survivors will soon receive life-saving anti-retrovirals from the state. In an apparent about-turn, the Justice Department has finally agreed to write into law a clause giving rape survivors certainty that they will have access to anti-retrovirals from state clinics within 72 hours of the attack.