10th SA AIDS Conference: Ending AIDS amid pandemics
South Africa hosted its 10th SA AIDS Conference this week and this year’s theme is 'Ending AIDS amid Pandemics'.
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Mothers2Mothers: Helping mothers live with HIV
Mothers2Mothers helps women living with HIV find employment and deal with the stigma of living with HIV.
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#SAAIDS2019: When HIV and weight stigma collide
The association of thinness with being sick still plagues society and continues to fuel HIV stigma, and possibly non-communicable diseases.
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HIV+ woman beats anger and denial
Mpumalanga - A young woman says HIV will not claim her life. Khosi Zitha said before she accepted her HIV status she battled with denial and anger. The 24-year-old told Health-e News that she could not cope because three of her siblings, who had been HIV-positive, had died.
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Managing pain – not death
Hospices are associated with dying, but many simply help people to cope with the pain or the psychosocial problems they are experiencing rather than preparing them to die. Health-e's AMY GREEN reports.
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Stigma not a distant memory for those living with HIV
When Ndlela Howard Dhlamini disclosed his HIV-positive status more than a decade ago, ignorance about HIV led his local tavern to refuse to reuse the glass he drank from. This kind of HIV stigma may be a memory for Dhlamini but not for everyone living with the virus.
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Rejection remains real concern for people living with HIV
More than three decades into South Africa’s HIV epidemic, HIV knowledge in the country is dropping and falling levels of HIV savvy may have real consequences for those living with HIV.
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Preaching HIV from the pulpit
“There is no place for judgment” Faith-Based Organisations told, as they are called to roll up their sleeves in their fight against HIV
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South Africa’s first national HIV stigma index has found that seven percent of HIV-positive women surveyed reported being sterilised against their will and about 40 percent reported contraception was a pre-requisite of accessing antiretrovirals (ARVs).
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More than three decades into South Africa’s HIV epidemic, treatment is widely available and HIV is no longer a death sentence – but stigma might be.
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Opinion: It’s time we caught up to HIV science
The country’s first openly HIV-positive Mr Gay South Africa finalist Charles Jacobs asks, HIV science has changed but have we? The latest court case against the South African National Defense Force (SANDF) may be a sign that we haven’t.
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