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6-12 July 2012—HIV News Update.
Featured:
- Pass the PEP, please: An article on “Surviving rape” in Move! magazine misses the opportunity to provide a definitive guide to accessing and taking HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for rape survivors.
- More uncritical coverage: "Brown Dash died of AIDS": DRUM’s coverage of singer Brown Dash’s death from an AIDS-related illness leaves crucial questions unasked and unanswered.
- Harm in place of help: Treating cases of HIV-related stigma and discrimination among health care workers as isolated incidents belies the magnitude of the problem.
- DS shows socio-economic factors undermine ART adherence: A story in the Daily Sun on HIV-positive Irish Tshabalala’s struggle to adhere to his antiretroviral treatment (ART) because he cannot afford food reveals how medical intervention can be undone by fraught socio-economic circumstances.
- TNA tackles home testing: An astute article in The New Age (TNA) considers what implications HIV home testing would have in South Africa, in light of the approval of a home testing kit for HIV in the US.
In the news:
- Farm workers get help from health minister (DS)
- Protecting humna rights-or hate? (M&G)
- Clnic clears the air on ARV shortage claims (TNA)
- Animal-human disease study (The Citizen)
- State to investigate HIV test kit tender (City Press)
- Abnormal normality (City Press)
- Counsellors' strike leaves HIV patinets in limbo (CP)
- Cartoon: HIV test kit tender (Sowetan)
- Prostitution 'only choice' for desperate Bloem girls (TNA)
- Wonderful woman, magnificent mom (DRUM)
- No condom-No sex! (DS)
- Conference unmasks escalating US Aids crisis (TNA)
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13-19 July 2012—HIV News Update.
Featured:
- The Star trips up on technicalities: The publication of erroneous information by The Star on the approval of the use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) spoils otherwise savvy coverage.
- Media helps public relate to reports: Thursday’s (19 July 2012) edition of The Star featured an easy to digest run down of the latest UNAIDS report titled 'Together we will end AIDS'.
In the news:
- HIV testing kit recall 'no cause for alarm' (The Star)
- FDA-approved HIV prophylactic welcomed (The Star)
- Bullying cops turn condoms into crime (The Star)
- US grapples with neglect of HIV (M&G)
- SA must reject legalisation of sex work (Sunday Independent)
- Saved from poverty (The Citizen)
- FAS awareness rises (TNA)
- Sowetan says: health care is sick (Sowetan)
- End of Aids pandemic in sight (TNA)
- Inequalities contribute to issues affecting health (TNA)
- HIV update: Drug releasing vaginal ring (DRUM)
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20-26 July 2012—HIV News Update
Featured:
- IAS coverage: The good, the bad and the boring: Coverage coming out of the 2012 International AIDS Summit has been a bit of good, a bit of bad and a bit of boring.
- M&G coverage of MMC leaves no stone unturned: The Mail&Guardian gives readers the full story, laying bear the complexity surrounding male circumcision by featuring well-written, interesting and most of all comprehensive coverage on the topic.
- Media recognises MTCT stats as newsworthy: A host of newspapers recognised the announcement of a drop in mother to child transmission (MTCT) of HIV as big news this week.
In the news:
- SA says progress made on UN goals (City Press)
- New TB drug combo could cut costs, recovery (The Star)
- Mercy and miracles (DRUM)
- Can this ARV be made safe (DRUM)
- HIV update: home-based care strike (DRUM)
- 'This is the real truth' (DRUM)
- Why did they expel me? (DRUM)
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27 July-2 August 2012—HIV News Update
Featured:
- New trends in HIV reporting: Move! magazine’s subtle integration of HIV into a discussion on antenatal care is illustrative of a new approach to HIV reporting.
- IAS reporting: Between cure and care: Last week’s International AIDS Summit (IAS) coverage generally ended on a positive note, but articles in The New Age (TNA) and City Press took very different angles in discussing the gains made in addressing HIV.
- Post-rape care reporting important for PEP: A report in The New Age (TNA) on the rape of an elderly woman makes almost unprecedented mention of “medical treatment” to prevent HIV.
- Living with HIV means ageing with HIV: The phrase ‘living with HIV’ may capture the virus’ relatively new status as a chronic but manageable condition, but articles in The Sunday Independent and The Star show that South Africa will soon need to anticipate the challenges of people ‘ageing with HIV’.
- M&G continues with 'cutting' edge stories: The Mail&Guardian continued to make male circumcision its focus this week by publishing a further two extensive articles on the subject.
In the news:
- ARVs effective as prevention tool (M&G)
- Patriarchy hurts where it counts (M&G)
- 42 boys perish-but silence (Sowetan)
- Acid mine drainage 'up risk of Aids' (Saturday Star)
- Infections are down, but our sexual behvaiour is a worry (Sunday Independent)
- Cartoon: UNAIDS report (The Star)
- HIV battle calls for united effort (TNA)
- Praise after Namibian court outlaws forced sterilisation (The Star)
- SA unhealthiest Brics member, says minister (Sowetan & The Citizen)
- NGOs in crisis over lack of funding and staff losses (TNA)
- HIV update: Home testing kit tender (DRUM)
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