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World Aids Day
Category: Home
As the world commemorates the 23rd annual World Aids Day, The Herald brings you special reports on exactly how bad the HIV/Aids pandemic is in the Eastern Cape. We interview children who are left to fend for themselves after losing their parents to Aids-related illness, and grill officials about what's being done to tackle the virus at grassroots level. The package also includes video interviews, sound bites and a picture slideshow depicting the daily burden of HIV/Aids.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryEastern Cape Aids orphans numbers surge drastically
Category: The Big Picture
THE massive surge in Aids orphans in the Eastern Cape, many of whom are forced to drop out of school to take care of their siblings, is undermining gains made in fighting the pandemic.
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Posted : 30 November 2011
An Aids orphan, 11, tells of being left to care for her baby sister
Category: The Big Picture
TEACHERS often complained about how often she missed school, fell asleep during class and didn’t do her homework.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryZuma and top officials in the Bay for World Aids Day announcement
Category: The Big Picture
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma and his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe are expected in Nelson Mandela Bay today to announce government’s plan to extend HIV treatment to everyone with a CD4 count of 350 and under.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryA grandmother's HIV burden
Category: Heavy is the Burden
“I PRAY that God will keep me alive until my grandson is old enough to look after himself.”
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryAn Aids activist on life with HIV
Category: Heavy is the Burden
THERE are some days when 35-year-old mother-of-two Precious cannot take her ARVs because she does not have any food to eat.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryCommunities urged to help out with Aids orphans crisis
Category: Heavy is the Burden
WITH an estimated 171000 Aids orphans in the Eastern Cape, the government, crippled by a shortage of social workers and a backlog of placing the orphans in foster care, has resorted to appealing to Good Samaritans to lend a hand.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryInroads made in treating HIV/Aids in Nelson Mandela Bay
Category: Fighting Back
THE government’s adjustment this year of how HIV-positive patients are treated has been a major step towards bringing the HIV/Aids pandemic under control in Nelson Mandela Bay.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryHIV/Aids deaths and new infections markedly down in the Eastern Cape
Category: Fighting Back
Nationally, an average of 21 people die every hour from HIV/Aids
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryFighting the tendency to default on HIV/Aids treatment
Category: Fighting Back
AS more HIV-positive patients are put onto antiretroviral treatment (ART), doctors warn of the rising global phenomenon of patients defaulting on their medication “as soon as they feel better”.
Post a Comment (0) Comments Read the rest of this entryHelping the helpless - why everyone should lend a hand
Category: Fighting Back
Khanyi Ndabeni spoke to Siphokazi Magobiyana, 40, who has been working with HIV/Aids patients through NGO Nonceba in Nelson Mandela Bay’s New Brighton for the past three years.
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