The Guardian, 17 November 2011
Swaziland has failed to pay more than $10m (£6.3m) in grants to Aids orphans, the IMF says, despite the vast wealth enjoyed by its absolute monarch. Read the rest of this entry »
South Africa: President Zuma gives State of the Nation Address
By Mark | February 14, 2013
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting Of Parliament, Cape Town
President Zuma gave his State of the Nation Address to Parliament on 14 February. In it he highlighted five key priorities including education, health, the fight against crime, decent work, rural development and land reform. Read the rest of this entry »
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Treatment Action Campaign turns 14 years old
By Mark | December 11, 2012
“In memory of former chief justice Arthur Chalskason”
Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was launched on 10 December 1998, the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. TAC turns fourteen (14) years today on the international human rights day. Read the rest of this entry »
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SA nurses union welcome progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS
By Mark | December 3, 2012
Democratic Nurses Organsiation of South Africa: Commemorating World AIDS Day on a positive note
As 1 December marked yet another World Aids Day, Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) notes the heart-warming progress the Read the rest of this entry »
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WAD 2012 report from One says World Off Track for achieving beginning of end of AIDS by 2015
By Mark | December 1, 2012
To mark this year’s World AIDS Day One has produced a new accountability report to monitor progress made towards the beginning of the end of AIDS. Specifically, the report tracks progress made on three key targets-the virtual elimination of Read the rest of this entry »
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Tutu calls for end to gay stigma to help tackle HIV
By Mark | July 20, 2012
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for homosexuality to be decriminalised to help tackle HIV.
His comments come in an analysis in The Lancet journal of why incidence of the virus continues to grow among men who have sex with men. Read the rest of this entry »
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Swaziland: HIV+ patients in a dilemma
By Sarah | January 10, 2012
Times of Swaziland, 10 January 2012
Many HIV positive patients in the country cannot have their CD4 count checked as there are still no analyser machine reagents in the country’s hospitals.
This is because government lacaks E7 million to purchase them, it has since been gathered. Read the rest of this entry »
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Stephen Lewis: “Reduced support to Global Fund tantamount to murder”
By Sarah | December 6, 2011
Aids-free World, 6 December 2011
Remarks by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, delivered at a plenary session at the 2011 International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA)
With your indulgence, I’m going to deviate from the assigned topic. I shall address the Millennium Development Goals, but not in the way that was anticipated.
There are two reasons. First, I want to speak in an unusually personal way, and from the heart, and in a fashion that leaves no room for ambiguity. Second, I consider the attack on the Global Fund to be the most serious assault it has endured in its ten-year history. I would feel utterly delinquent to let the issue slide. Read the rest of this entry »
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Funding shortage dampening optimism on AIDS progress
By Mark | November 30, 2011
The international community has made extraordinary progress in the past decade in the fight against Aids but a funding crisis is putting those gains at risk, United Nations health agencies said on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Swaziland’s super-rich king fails to find money for Aids orphans
By Sarah | November 18, 2011
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Swaziland: Funding fiasco leaves country short of lab supplies
By Sarah | November 16, 2011
IRIN/Plus News Global, 15 November 2011
First there were national shortages of HIV medication, then of HIV tests, now Swaziland lacks the lab tests essential for initiating and managing HIV patients on treatment. To make matters worse, the country chose not to apply for the international funding that could have safeguarded antiretroviral (ARV) stocks. Read the rest of this entry »
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