AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-Young people & SRHR
By Ngqabutho Mpofu Nosipho Soga is a 19-year-old learner who hails from Kuyasa, a Khayelitsha township in Cape Town. She can best be described as bubbly, intelligent, engaged and relatively…
AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-Condoms are not enough
By Ngqabutho Mpofu Nosicelo Kokoti cannot be described as an adolescent woman anymore. [caption id="attachment_6529" align="alignright" width="300"] Nosicelo Kokoti[/caption] However, at the age of 31, she is as passionate as…
AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-All about Love
By Ngqabutho Mpofu Dressed in a Robert Sobukwe Dashiki and trendy shoes, Thando Jack draws [caption id="attachment_6508" align="alignright" width="300"] Thando Jackby Joyrene Kramer[/caption] gazes from the mainly white upper middle-class…
AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-There’s no one influencing me anymore
By Nomatter Ndebele [caption id="attachment_6515" align="alignright" width="300"] Gloria. Pic by Joyrene Kramer[/caption] Gloria lives in Vrededorp, Johannesburg with her partner and her 2-year-old son. She has been on drugs since…
AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV- “There was no one who came to visit them at their homes”
By Ngqabutho Mpofu Ronnie came out in the early 1980s, telling his friends and sister that he was homosexual. This was not an easy thing to do, given the traditional…
AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-Where I work now, I actually feel like a woman
By Nomatter Ndebele Thirty-seven-year-old Zelda Leonie, has been a sex worker since she was 17 years old. She decided to go into sex work when she realized that she could…
AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-I had heard that In South Africa, Gay people were free
By Nomatter Ndebele Zizipho has flaming red hair that matches her clutch bag. Her demure pink [caption id="attachment_6511" align="alignright" width="300"] ZIZIPHO pic by Joyrene Kramer[/caption] manicure matches her soft pink…
AIDS2018: Humans in the Age of HIV-Carmen is impossible to miss
By Nomatter Ndebele Carmen is impossible to miss. She comes sauntering down the road with her luscious black locks bouncing gently behind her, as she moves closer she casually drops…
AIDS2018: Humans in the age of HIV-It’s the living that can hurt you
By Nomatter Ndebele [caption id="attachment_6490" align="alignright" width="300"] Marthinus Barnard. Pic by Joyrene Kramer[/caption] There are an estimated 75000 people living in South Africa who inject drugs. According to local NGO,…
AIDS2018: Why the conference still matters at this point in the HIV Epidemic
There are many reasons why the end of the AIDS epidemic is not yet in sight and why the International AIDS Conference still matters, writes IAS President Linda-Gail Bekker. The…
New estimates of SA’s progress toward 90-90-90
The 90-90-90 targets have become key indicators against which to measure our progress in the HIV response. A new Human Sciences Research Council survey provides some estimates of how we are doing.
NHI Bill: Welcome but flawed
The People’s Health Movement South Africa (PHm-SA) are supportive of the principles that underpin the NHI, but they have several reservations about whether the NHI Bill can deliver universal health coverage. David Sanders & Louis Reynolds of PHM-SA explains.