Thailand's lessons to help local HIV/AIDS responses

A delegation of community-based organisations from Thailand and Cambodia recently visited four African countries on a learning exchange programme to look at the greater involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS (PWAs) and the role of religious bodies in local responses to the pandemic.

TAC calls for comprehensive treatment and prevention plan

New research demonstrates the enormous social and economic costs our country will face if government does not lead civil society and the private sector in the use of anti-retroviral therapy. The Treatment Action Campaign's call for a national treatment plan by government with clear budgets and time-frames is the only chance this government has to avoid a social catastrophe.

Star athlete joins fight against HIV/AIDS

Ethiopia's Olympic gold medallist Haile Gebreselassie on Wednesday urged young Ethiopians to fight the scourge of HIV/AIDS.

Anti-HIV/AIDS communications strategy under consideration

Media experts and other specialists from across the Central African Republic began a three-day workshop on Monday to map out a national strategy for communicating HIV/AIDS-prevention messages.

MRC AIDS FORUM - CINDI Network Presentatation

The guest Speaker at the MRC's March 2002 AIDS Forum was Yvonne Spain, Co-ordinator of the CINDI Network. Formed in 1996, Children in Distress (CINDI) is a network of 68 organisations in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands concerned about the impact of HIV/AIDS on children in the region, and seeking to respond effectively to the growing numbers of children affected by HIV/AIDS in Pietermaritzburg and its surrounds.

SCIENCE AND SPIRIT: Uniting in the struggle against HIV/AIDS

The first of a series of seminars convened to forge firm links between KwaZulu-Natal's religious leaders and HIV/AIDS medical researchers in response to the epidemic was held at Durban's Jewish Club this week. Co-hosted by HIVAN (Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking) from Natal University and the Interfaith AIDS Forum of the World Council of Religion and Peace (WCRP), the seminar focused discussion on the ethics of AIDS vaccine trials and prevention of mother-to-child-transmission of HIV.

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HIV/AIDS - the price our children pay

In recognition of 6 November being International Children's Day, we have republished, with kind permission, three items featured in the October/November 2002 edition of ChildrenFIRST Journal (Vol 6 No. 45), each with a specific focus on children and the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Stop talking and act on HIV/AIDS, urges Mandela

"Don't just talk about HIV/AIDS - do something about it." With these words, Nelson Mandela on 3rd December called on all South Africans to take action to fight HIV/AIDS, rather than merely discuss the pandemic.

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.