Don’t make us criminals
Address presented at a session entitled ‛South Africa’s National Sex Worker HIV Plan: Are you coming?’ at the 2016 International AIDS Conference in Durban.
Less money for TB research
The world spent less on tuberculosis (TB) research in 2015 than it did in 2009. This decrease in spending does not track a similar decline in TB incidence or mortality.
OPEN LETTER | Dear Ramaphosa, our Fifth National AIDS plan presents SA’s greatest challenge yet
Former deputy Chairperson of the SA National AIDS Council (SANAC) and long-time AIDS activist Mark Heywood’s plea to Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa as we craft our next response to the epidemic.
Notes on our next NSP
At the end of this year South Africa’s big plan to fight HIV and tuberculosis comes to an end. The National Strategic Plan for HIV, TB and STIs 2012 – 2016 will be replaced by the 2017 – 2021 NSP. It is vital that the new NSP avoids the mistakes of the past and fully incorporates new scientific evidence.
How HIV shaped us
HIV changed our society at a time when South Africa needed no distraction as it battled to rebuild a nation post-apartheid., write Professor Glenda Gray and Professor James A. McIntyre.
How the dark age of HIV/AIDS changed our democracy – Professor Hoosen Coovadia’s personal view
Professor Hoosen Coovadia writes that he was thrust into the vortex of International AIDS Society’s 13th International AIDS conference in 2000 as chairperson by close colleagues Professor Quarraisha Abdool-Karim and Dr Gustaaf Wolvaardt, presumably due to the absence of any suitable alternatives, because of his academic record (such as it was at that time) and his leadership roles in the struggle for freedom.
Time to take a cold, hard look
With over 3 000 people dying from HIV infection every single day and 5 500 becoming newly infected, AIDS is not over by any means, writes Professor Peter Piot.
So many successes, but too many new HIV infections
As the global HIV community returns to South Africa for the International AIDS Conference, there is no better time to take stock of the progress the country has made, write Dr Fareed Abdullah and Kanya Ndaki.
Edwin Cameron | How the law helps – or hinders – the fight against the AIDS epidemic
It has been almost 35 years since AIDS was identified. Thirty-five long years, since the disquieting realisation that young men in North America, in the prime of their lives, were dying from a hitherto unknown virus.
We are in a very exciting time for HIV treatment for three reasons
We are in a very exciting time for HIV treatment (ART) for three reasons. Over 17 million people with HIV are receiving ART worldwide. This is less than half of the over 36 million people living with HIV.
“The end of AIDS” tune is premature and dangerous
Professor Francois Venter writes that it is strange to think of the progress we have made as a country since 2004, when the South African antiretroviral (ARV) programme rollout was started. A full version of the special edition of Spotlight will be released during the International AIDS Conference in Durban which starts on 17 July. This is an article which will be published in Spotlight.
Clinical trials and scientific discoveries give renewed hope for an HIV vaccine
We are at a pivotal point in the pursuit of a vaccine against HIV, write Professor Lynn Morris, Professor Carolyn Williamson and Dr Kathy Mngadi. A full version of the special edition of Spotlight will be released during the International AIDS Conference in Durban which starts on 17 July. This is an article which will be published in Spotlight.