Nurse wins award for AIDS work

More and more, Alexandra nursing sister Ramokone Rosina Letwaba began to realise who the silent victims of HIV and AIDS were: grandparents.

NEPAD criticised for not focusing on HIV/AIDS

Stephen Lewis, the UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS, last week criticised the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) for its modest references to HIV/AIDS.

Historic Congress to save lives

On Thursday, 27 June 2002, the TAC/COSATU National Treatment Congress begins at the Coastlands Conference Centre in Durban. The aim of the congress is to debate and build a national consensus between civil society and government around a comprehensive, emergency strategy to save lives, by stemming the rise in HIV/AIDS, through campaigns on education, prevention, diet, counselling and treatment.

28 million Africans now living with HIV/AIDS - UNAIDS

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has released new data about the unprecedented devastation AIDS is causing in African societies and economies.

Bush criticised over Africa policies

Ahead of this week€™s meeting of rich country leaders in Kananaskis, Canada, Africa Action criticised the recent announcements by President George W. Bush on new Africa policy initiatives.

A boost for AIDS research in South Africa

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) has awarded two grants to Massachusetts General Hospital - totaling $3.75 million - to expand HIV/AIDS clinical research capacity within South Africa.

"AIDS in the 21st Century" - Book review

I have just read "AIDS in the Twenty-First Century, Disease and Globalisation" by Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside, (Palgrave Macmillan, UK 2002) and I am writing to recommend it. It is starkly clear and eminently readable. Facts, figures and stories with which each of us are familiar are juxtaposed in new and graphic ways, to powerful effect.

Clinton & Mandela to speak at closing ceremony of International AIDS Conference

Former US President, Bill Clinton, and former South African President, Nelson Mandela will jointly close the XIV International AIDS Conference on 12 July 2002.

Spend defence budget on AIDS - Cosatu

The general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), Mr Zwelinzama Vavi, said in Durban last night that he could not understand the hesitance of the government in supplying anti-retroviral drugs to people with HIV and AIDS.

Consensus Statement of National HIV/AIDS Treatment Congress, June 29th 2002

Preamble: Between June 27th and 29th 2002, 750 delegates from all over South Africa attended the TAC/COSATU National Treatment Congress. Delegates heard presentations from many of South Africa's leading HIV scientists but also the day-to-day experiences of the epidemic of nurses, doctors and people living with HIV/AIDS.