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We review local media coverage of HIV and support South African media practitioners covering HIV issues. Whether you’re a journalist, script writer or radio producer, here you’ll find the information and contacts you need to produce healthy media. The website is maintained by the HIV & AIDS Media Project.

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We monitor HIV coverage in the SA media

Sex workers reject jobs

Sex workers reject jobs

The settlement was initially called Kgotsong, which means "place of peace" in Sesotho.

But after prostitutes moved in and started conducting their trade in broad daylight, residents have renamed the place Dinaweng - which implies that it is a place of sex.

… Read more 12 February 2014, by Sowetan | 0 Comments

Cultural role in gender-based-violence and HIV to be probed

Cultural role in gender-based-violence and HIV to be probed

The Department of Women, Children and people with with Disabilities is to focus on the role of culture in the battle against HIV and gender violence.

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28 February 2014, by The New Age | 0 Comments

Aids device that detects bombs?

Aids device that detects bombs?

On Saturday the Egyptian army unveiled a "miraculous" device it claims will detect and cure Aids and hepatitis.

But the device named C-Fast, looks… Read more

28 February 2014, by The New Age | 0 Comments

SA’s teen pregnancy crisis

SA’s teen pregnancy crisis

A shocking 80 000 babies are born to schoolgirls under the age of 18 in South Africa annually and illegal abortions are spiraling up.

Health Minister… Read more

28 February 2014, by The New Age | 0 Comments
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