NOVEMBER 2009

SA faces major crisis over Aids orphans
30 November 2009
Mail & Guardian Online
Quoted: Dr William Mapham
While South Africa's HIV-infection rate may have stabilised, experts warn that the country's slow response to the pandemic has triggered a time bomb that may leave one in three children orphaned...

City observes World Aids Day
30 November 2009
City of Joburg Website
Various activities have been organised by the City to raise HIV and Aids awareness in the run up to and on World Aids Day, observed each year on 1 December...

Where half of the new moms have HIV
29 November 2009
Times Live (Times Newspaper Online)
Quoted: Professor Jerry Coovadia
KwaZulu-Natal remains the epicentre of HIV/Aids in South Africa. The province has the highest rate of HIV-infected pregnant women in the country - and possibly the world.

Involving men in South Africa fight against HIV
28 November 2009
AFP Video
Interview with Mzwamadoda Lwana

SA male circumcision plan almost there
24 November 2009
Health-e
Quoted: Professor Helen Rees
South Africa has moved swiftly to develop a male circumcision plan that would have buy-in from all stakeholders and will go beyond being a purely medical intervention, ideally also engaging men on among others HIV prevention, gender issues and alcohol abuse.

Prostitutes fear S. Africa's World Cup clean-up
20 November 2009
AFP
Quoted: Marlise Richter
Jabulisile works the streets in Hillbrow, a rough area normally avoided by tourists, but just a stone's throw from one of the World Cup stadiums that she hopes will bring in visitors looking for sex...

Trying to give sex workers safer alternatives
17 November 2009
IRIN Plus News/Reuters AlertNet
Quoted: Nonhlanhla Motlokoa
The Reproductive Health & HIV Research Unit (RHRU) of the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa, have adopted a more flexible approach with their "Beauty Shack" project for sex workers from the inner-city neighbourhood of Hillbrow...

OCTOBER 2009

South Africa tries to enlist men in AIDS battle
AFP/France 24

Breaking the shackles of sex work
30 October 2009
Health-e

Photographs of peer educators on the Wall Street Journal website
23 October 2009
AFP/Wall Street Journal