Dietary Guidelines for HIV-positive living
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Posted: ?Sunday, February 01, 2004
Monica Fairall.The Pursuit of Health SAfm broadcast 24 March 2003
Two United Nations agencies have come out in support of the beneficial role of diet in the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS. The World Health Organisation as well as the Food and Agriculture Organisation have declared that a good diet is one of the simplest means of helping people living with HIV/AIDS, and may even help delay the deadly progression of the virus.
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Breast-feeding is the superior feeding method
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Posted: ?Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Estelle Ellis, Gill Gifford and Jillian Green.09 February 2004. The Star. Republished courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd.
Breast milk is superior to any other way of feeding infants. It is valuable for the sustained health of babies to be breastfed for at least six months and even beyond the age of two. Partial artificial feeding can have a negative effect.
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The new frontier
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Posted: ?Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Janet van Eeden.04 February 2004. The Natal Witness. Republished courtesy of The Natal Witness.
Home-based carers are pushing into the rural areas to confront the ravages of HIV/AIDS with little government back-up.
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Keynote Speech by Stephen Lewis at the 11th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
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Posted: ?Friday, February 13, 2004
Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy, HIV/AIDS in Africa.08 February, 2004. 11th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
This keynote Speech was given by Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy, HIV/AIDS in Africa at the 11th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections on 08 February, 2004 in San Francisco, CA.
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Patients may choose
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Posted: ?Monday, February 16, 2004
Khopotso Bodibe.11 February 2004. Health-E News. Republished courtesy of Health-E News Service.
Government’s HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Plan is not only about making antiretrovirals available in the public health sector for the first time. The programme also includes a strong focus on nutrition and traditional medicines. Health-e News Service asked Dr Nono Simelela, co-ordinator of the Plan, how the three components come together in the programme.
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Community-based approach developed for orphan care
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Posted: ?Tuesday, February 17, 2004
IRIN PlusNews Service.13 February 2004. Republished courtesy of IRIN PlusNews.
An innovative pilot project by SOS Children's Villages Association of South Africa to provide community-based care for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS is underway in the rural community of QwaQwa, in Free State province.
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Spending on HIV/AIDS to triple in three years
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Posted: ?Thursday, February 19, 2004
Jeremy Michaels, Charles Phahlane, Makhudu Sefara and Christelle Ellis.18 February 2004. The Star. Republished courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd.
Government spending on fighting HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis is set to almost triple over the next three years to R12,3-billion.
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Budget boost for HIV/AIDS spending
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Posted: ?Thursday, February 19, 2004
IRIN PlusNews Service.18 February 2004. Republished courtesy of IRIN PlusNews.
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel announced on Wednesday that a further R2.1 billion (US $305 million) will be allocated to fighting HIV/AIDS over the next three years.
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Manuel gives health a dose of curative cash
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Posted: ?Friday, February 20, 2004
Jillian Green.19 February 2004. The Star. Republished courtesy of Independent Newspapers (Pty) Ltd.
HIV-positive Mbulelo Mangqu is living in hope following Finance Minister Trevor Manuel's budgetary allocation to health and the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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Women need more than AIDS slogans
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Posted: ?Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Peter Piot and Emma Thompson.Reublished from the Mail & Guardian, 13 - 19 February 2004
Mrs Akinyi’s husband died of AIDS in 1990. She believes her husband infected her with HIV – he had a history of extra-marital affairs. When he died, her in-laws denied her of her property inheritance; in her words, “Immediately after the burial I was chased away from home with my children.?
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