Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
The BBC reports on South African Children as young as 15 shooting up with grounded HIV anti-retrovirals sometimes mixed with painkillers and marijuana.
"I couldn't believe it. I was shocked at first, these were school boys in their school uniforms," documentary-maker Tooli Nhlapo told the BBC World Service's Outlook programme.
"They ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
During the opening ceremony of the 2008 AIDS Vaccine Conference in Cape Town, Barbara Hogan who was recently appointed Minister of Health following the demise of Dr Beetroot, said "We know that HIV causes Aids".
It was a "breath of fresh air" reacted Alan Berstein, executive director of the Global HIV ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
My first impressions, gathered on the transfer from airport to town centre, were that Cape Town would be a place of contrasts. The airport was common, but as soon as the minivan was out of the compound, the first scenery we went through was of a township. To have seen ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
The 2008 AIDS Vaccine Conference will be held in Cape Town (South Africa) from the 13 to 16th of October. Preparation for the event as well as a series of meetings and projects explain the gap in posting here, but there will be plenty of opportunities and a very long ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Kgalema Motlanthe sworn in as South Africa's president replacing Thabo Mbeki has appointed Ms Barbara Hogan as Minister of Health and Dr Molefi Sefularo as the Deputy Minister of Health.
Barbara Hogan who was pushed out of Parliament in 2003 in part for her refusal to accept Mbeki's denialist stance on ...
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