Global AIDS - South Africa
Links
| Youthnet |
A global program aimed at improving the reproductive health
and the prevention of HIV/AIDS among young people 10 to 24
years old. It's employed the energy, insight, and experience
of parents, schoolteachers, employers, policymakers, the media,
health professionals, non-government agencies, religious and
community leaders, and other youth networks.
It's in English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Arabic. |
| Biology
of AIDS |
| The World Edition of BBC News is carrying a superb series
on the biology of AIDS covering the Hiv virus, Infection,
Early Stages and as AIDS Develops. |
| www.womenchildrenhiv.org |
| New resources regarding Women, Children and HIV including
caring for HIV-infected children and care of orphans in the
community. |
| AF-AIDS
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| An excellent AFRICA AIDS resource |
| www.irinnews.org/AIDSfp.asp |
| IRIN PlusNews is a special HIV/AIDS information service
of the United Nations Office for the co-ordination of Humanitarian
Affairs, specialising in Africa and Asia. |
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Circumcision, condoms and lemon juice
“In Press, Reproduction, Fertility and Development, 2004”
The HIV/AIDS Pandemic: New Ways of Preventing Infection in Men - Professor R. V. Short FAA, FRS
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A special cause for Rotary International?
A dramatically moving invitation is being offered to Rotary International to take up the battle against global HIV/AIDS as its next special cause following on its magnificent efforts to beat world polio.
The Australian AIDS Fund Incorporated and AIDS Information Services fully endorses the invitation.
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Produced by Lee Liberman of Melbourne, The Day in the Life of Africa is an extraordinary photographic project reflecting the work of almost 100 of the world's top photojournalists to document the entire continent of Africa in just 24 hours - a tapestry of stunning beauty.
When the photographs were shot in February, 2002, it was generally believed that more than 15 million Africans had already died in the AIDS panemic while a further 25 million others were infected.
Publishing profits from this project are directed to the Day in the Life of Africa AIDS Education Fund created for the express purpose of channelling money into effective on-the-ground AIDS-education programs on the African continent.
The Australian AIDS Fund Incorporated and Melbourne's AIDS Information Services supports and applauds this initiative.
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South Africa Changes Course With Aggressive AIDS Plan
In a dramatic shift in its AIDS policy, the South African government said it would undertake the world's largest AIDS treatment program by providing the expensive and complex AIDS drug regimens free of charge inthe public sector. |
Wall Street Journal |
19/11/03 |
South Africa Says It Will Fight AIDS With a Drug Plan
(By Lawrence K. Altman)
Bowing to regional and international clamour for a more vigorous attack against the AIDS epidemic, the South African government yesterday changed its stand on providing drugs to combat the virus, saying it would develop a plan to offer them to infected people through its public health system by October 1, 2003. | The New York Times |
09/08/03 |
Bush touts African AIDS triumphs
High on the president's agenda is Africa's AIDS crisis, to which he has pledged $15 billion over the next five years. |
The Christian Science Monitor |
07/08/03 |
| Mandela rallies world for AIDS fight
The former South African leader, Nelson Mandela, has urged the world to fight the “terrible and threatening scourge” of HIV/AIDS, describing the disease as “no less than a war, a world war that affects all of us ultimately”. | BBC |
--/07/03 |
World Population Day
As the world marks World Population Day, the International Community ofWomen living with HIV/AIDS commemorates the loss of over 1 million women around the world, who died with AIDS during this last year. | |
11/07/03 |
UN appeal for Africa
With up to 1,000 people dying of AIDS each day in the worst-affected countries in Africa and 60 million across the continent impacted by the epidemic, a top United Nations official today urged leaders at the African Union Summit in Mozambique to invest in prevention, care and treatment of the epidemic. |
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11/07/03 |
Vital information for young people
With over 70,000 teenage girls marrying, nearly 40,000 giving birth, and 6,000 young people contracting HIV/AIDS every day, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today the right to education, information and services for the young was crucial in curbing both population growth and the AIDS pandemic. |
Annan - New York |
11/07/03 |
South Africa - Men in crisis
As South African men struggle to define their identity, researchers grapple with what has made this country's men into what they are. |
Health-E news service |
08/07/03 |
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Rainbow Village
The very special Rainbow Village
in South Africa is South Africa’s first village for people living
with HIV/AIDS that’ll help meet that country’s overwhelming
need for large-scale caring facilities.
The Rainbow Village aims to provide:
- A 200 bed hospice facility
- Home-based care to assist patients in their own homes, providing
nursing and counselling
- Care for HIV+ children and babies who are part of an affected family
- Work opportunities for still active people through income-generating
opportunities
- And peace of mind for those with HIV whose little ones will either
be orphaned or themselves die of AIDS in the future.
Remember! With about five million of its people infected or one in
every nine men, women and children, South Africa is the world’s
most HIV-infected country.
The needs of those in the Rainbow Village are so very basic even toilet
paper gets a priority ranking on an internationally circulated wishlist!
For some pictures of this really
remarkable and vital village Click Here
For further information, click
here and also you can refer to the links
page.
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