| HIV/AIDS: Straight Talk with Elizabeth Pisani, author of The Wisdom of Whores |
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NAIROBI، 7/6/2011 (PlusNews) - Epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani raised eyebrows in 2008 with her book, The Wisdom of Whores, a frank account of her experiences working in the field of HIV/AIDS, from the politics of raising money to conversations in the backstreet brothels of Bangkok. She spoke to IRIN/PlusNews: full report |
| SOUTH AFRICA: Mandisa Dlamini, “You don’t know the real Gugu Dlamini” |
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DURBAN، 8/6/2011 (PlusNews) - In 1998, HIV/AIDS activist Gugu Dlamini was beaten to death near KwaMashu township outside Durban after publicly disclosing her HIV-positive status. Her death, an example of the depth of HIV stigma, shook South Africa. Dlamini’s death almost destroyed her daughter, Mandisa, who was just 13 years old when her mother died. Now 25, Mandisa spoke about her experience as part of this year’s Nkosi Johnson memorial lecture, named for South Africa’s youngest HIV activist who died in 2001, at the SA AIDS 2011 Conference. full report |
| SOUTH AFRICA: Top five recent successes in HIV |
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DURBAN، 8/6/2011 (PlusNews) - South Africa's HIV/AIDS programme has come a long way from the dark days of denialism and deadly treatment delays. Francois Venter, chairman of the country's bi-annual HIV conference, SA AIDS 2011, gave IRIN/PlusNews five reasons to be happy about the country’s progress: full report |
| SOUTH AFRICA: Mother-to-child HIV transmission plummets |
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DURBAN، 9/6/2011 (PlusNews) - The rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission has fallen to 3.5 percent according to a national survey by the South African Medical Research Council (MRC) and researchers say the virtual elimination of vertical HIV transmission may now be possible by 2015. full report |
| SOUTH AFRICA: Promise and peril in ARV-based prevention |
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DURBAN، 10/6/2011 (PlusNews) - The road to prevention methods based on antiretroviral (ARV) drugs is still fraught with challenges, but recent groundbreaking trial results from this promising new field offer greater hope than previous efforts. full report |