HIV Experts present on 30th October: Herbal Meds for HIV and Fire Breathing Talk regarding HIV Prevention - Book your seat now!

Dr David Walwyn has interesting views on the opportunities and barriers regarding local ART development and will present "The Use of Natural Plant Extracts to Treat HIV: Hot Potato or Herbal Medicine" - 6pm

Dr Tom Coates is an international heavyweight in the HIV Prevention Arena. He breathes fire in tackling our biggest challenge surrounding HIV, and he has promised to rock you all. He will present "Why is HIV Prevention Failing" - 7.30pm

Venue: The Pharmaceutical Society Building, 52 Glenhove Road, Houghton, Johannesburg

Bookings: Cloe Hardy, 011 341 0162, hardyc@sahivsoc.org

Pictures from the Wellness Day

Teenagers do not fall pregnant to get the child support grant - Francois Venter

The HSRC has conducted research that shows that it is a myth that (young) women fall pregnant to get a child support grant of R210 per month = R7 per day. Read more by clicking on the links below:

Download the Full Report

or view summaries of the research:

http://intranet.hsrc.ac.za/HSRC_Review_Article-49.phtml

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20070313013729426C258097

Francois Venter recommends this article on circumcision:

Urgent action required to 'roll out' circumcision in South Africa.

"As more and more people in sub-Saharan Africa become needlessly infected with HIV, the time has come for urgent and decisive leadership, not circular and unscientific arguments about an intervention whose efficacy has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt,"
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Getting Research Results to the People that Matter

Using Research to...

1. Influence Policy Makers
2. Increase the Practice of Evidence Based Medicine
3. Keep Communities Informed.

The Programme for Research & Capacity Building in Sexual & Reproductive Health & HIV in Developing Countries is holding a Communications Training Workshop in London. Mdu Mntambo and William Mapham are attending the workshop and are sharing experiences with colleagues from Ghana, Tanzania, America and the United Kingdom.
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TAC Welcome New Health Minister and her Deputy

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) welcomes the appointments of Ms Barbara Hogan as the Minister of Health and Dr Molefi Sefularo as the Deputy Minister of Health. We congratulate President Motlanthe for making these excellent appointments.
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For a short video of TAC members greeting Barbara Hogan outside her flat in Cape Town:
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Who is Barbara Hogan?

The New Health Minister: Barbara Hogan grew up in Benoni, an industrial town. She was the first woman to be elected as a Junior Deputy-Mayor in South Africa. Arrested for the first time in anti-government protests at the age of 18, she became a student activist and joined the embryonic black trade union movement that was later to emerge as COSATU, the largest trade union federation in South Africa. In 1977, Barbara joined the banned, underground political wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1981 she was arrested and sentenced to an effective 10 years imprisonment for High Treason for so-called political offences. Her release came in 1990, one week after the unbanning of the ANC. Elected to Parliament in 1994, she served as Chair of Finance Portfolio Committee and the Standing Committee on the Auditor-General and helped draft the financial clauses of the new Constitution. Appointed as Minister of Health in 2008.

TB in South Africa - What must we do? HIV Clinicians Meeting, 30th September, Joburg

VENUE: The Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa, 52 Glenhove Road, Houghton, Johannesburg

TIME: 19h00 – 19h30: Finger supper;19h30 – 20H30: Branch Meeting

SPEAKER: Dr Andrew Black: A pulmonologist at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, with a strong interest in TB.

Dr Francois Venter recommends the following article:
SOUTH AFRICA: ARV and TB drugs taken together halve deaths.
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Learn about the Female Condom - Thanks to Mags Begsinska and Jenni Smit

Female Condom Mags

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The latest information on contraception - brilliant review by Clair von Mollendorf

Contraception And Hiv

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