World AIDS Day event on 1st December 2009 at 11:00 – 13:00

The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation is a public benefit organisation doing research and service provision, in the field of TB and HIV/AIDS. It has a site based at Masiphumelele (Cape Town, South Africa) that is serving predominantly the Masiphumelele community.
Our work currently focuses on HIV prevention research and strategies in the Community. This includes community [...]

Today Is My “HIV Birthday”

Please if you’re at health department or invloved in HIV related activitives especial support groups here’s a concept you could use as theme for your event (HIV Birthday).
“Seven years ago today, I found out I was HIV positive. I’m thinking a lot today about how my life has changed since that day. You know, I [...]

Can we trust media to look after itself?

The media has been canvassing for relaxation of regulations with regards to what it can publish and what it cannot publish. Thus far a number of these laws have been relaxed compared to apartheid era. However a lot still needs to be done by media or South African Broadcasting Complaints Commission as well as Advertising [...]

Dr Herb (Sicelo Shiceka) takes over where Dr Beetroot (Tshabalala-Msimang) left off (HIV/AIDS)

Sicelo Shiceka this week stuck to his controversial statements that “herbs” have an important role to play in “bringing down the viral load in HIV/AIDS”.
Still recovering from an era of AIDS denialism and quackery under former health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and then President Thabo Mbeki, South Africans read in a weekend newspaper that the [...]

Politics of ARVs in South Africa

My experience has shown me that some people are careless about their future (life) and care a little more about today. This I learnt while participating in the roll-out of ARVs.
 
People on ARVs are given about three different types of pills to take over a period of time (for life). Where these are filed or [...]

An experience that no human being or animal should be subjected to…

A while ago (2 May 2009) I read an article published on Vukani community newspaper (in Cape Town). It had a story on one of health system’s failures; however I still can’t get over the poor women’s bad experience with the Govt. hospital she went to for assistance and her irreplaceable loss.
The story goes like [...]

When ANC wins elections, who’ll be the official opposition party?

A lot of focus has been thinking about how Shikota party (break-away party) will dent ANC’s election victory and less about who will be the official opposition party.
The way I see it, it’s either the ANC will get a significant win or will be dented by the break-away party. In the case where the ANC [...]

Do parents fulfill their role as parents considering high rate of pregnancies at Schools

Statistics gathered by City Press newspaper in Eastern Cape reveals that 9 010 girls having fallen pregnant this year, three of these were in Grade 3 (meaning they are 10 years or a little older considering that the legal age to start Grade 1 is 7 years).
East London Secondary School currently has 15 registered [...]

Ground breaking “Citizen Journalism using mobile phone” project kicks off

Local Secondary school learners from disadvantaged sectors of the Grahamstown community are getting the opportunity to put cell phones to use in interactive journalism.
These 80 scholars are using their cellular phones to contribute to Grocott’s Mail (a Grahamstown community news paper). The project is three-fold meaning; the learners will provide opinion smses on stories published [...]

Historically disadvantaged Grade 11 learners to become Citizen Journalists using mobile phones

Firstly a special thank you to my friends who have nominated me for the Trufm Youth Awards (Trufm is SABC’s only youth radio station based in Bisho, Eastern Cape). As you all might know by now that on 20th June 2008 I was awarded as a winner in the Media and Communications category at a ceremony held in East London. [...]