Spotlight Edition 1

Spotlight Edition 1

Interactive Data Dashboards

Track the HIV & TB response

Live indicators, province breakdowns and downloadable data.

  • When a good idea becomes good news: adherence clubs in the Free State

    By Ufrieda Ho A simple well-managed idea is not only easing pressure on the Free State health care system and making HIV-positive patients’ lives easier – it also seems to be bringing down mortality rates amongst those with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Médecins Sans Frontières’ HIV adherence clubs have grown, in under two years, to…

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  • A time of dying in Durban

    By Kerry Cullinan – Every day, I passed three funeral parlours on my 5km drive to work in central Durban. Shiny hearses lined up in the street, one behind the other. Fetching, taking, waiting. A full version of the special edition of Spotlight will be released during the International AIDS Conference in Durban which starts…

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  • Activism and Civil society: what it is and what it’s not

    By Mark Heywood – 2016 is a year of AIDS anniversaries. It is the 20th anniversary of the International AIDS conference in Vancouver where the successful use of combination antiretroviral therapy for the treatment of HIV was first announced. A full version of the special edition of Spotlight will be released during the International AIDS…

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  • Truth Telling Not Welcome?

    By- Mark Heywood South Africa is gearing up for the International AIDS Conference, which starts on July 18th, Mandela Day.  And nobody is gearing up more than the SA Government. That’s a very good thing. AIDS denialism is dead! Long live AIDS? Uh? No, long live a united campaign to overcome HIV, TB and the…

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