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Jul 5, 2011 South Africa: Taking Leadership in AIDS Fight
South Africa's 5th AIDS conference, held from June 7-10 this
year, marked a remarkable turnaround in the country's
efforts against the AIDS pandemic. Achievements noted
included bringing 400,000 additional AIDS patients into
antiretroviral treatment within the last year, raising the
total to 1.4 million; cutting the cost of antiretroviral
therapy in half over six months; and extending treatment
using trained nurses to more than 1,600 health facilities.
Most important of all has been a strong spirit of
collaboration among the government, medical specialists, and
activists.
Oct 7, 2010 South Africa: Post-Apartheid Poverty & Inequality
The question of how much change in social and economic conditions
has followed the fall of apartheid in South Africa has provoked
not also much debate but also significant research. A useful new
report by Murray Leibbrant and others at the Southern Africa Labour
and Development Research Unit in Cape Town provides both a summary
of previous research and new analysis of household-level data
between 1993 and 2008.
Oct 3, 2010 South Africa: Media Matters
"The current debate needs to interrogate the desire for secrecy
against the right to information in a society in which the lack of
socio-economic rights diminishes the ability to access political
and civil rights and vice-versa. It is a vicious cycle that the
further secrecy of the Protection of Information Bill, will only
deepen. The right to access to information that government itself
has put in place since 1994 needs to be upheld not undermined." -
Pregs Govender, Deputy Chair, South African Human Rights Commission
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