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South Africa: TAC Protests Against Shortages of Life-Saving Drugs
BY MARY-ANNE GONTSANA “We demand accountable leadership”, “Failure to resolve stock-outs = human rights violation”, “Limpopo Department of Health – Failed promises” read placards at the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) march in solidarity with provinces that continue to be plagued by finding essential medicines are…
Author: All Africa
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South Africa: TAC - TB Neglected
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) says Tuberculosis (TB) is underfunded and progress action against the epidemic is slow. TB has been one of the most important causes of premature death in South Africa, made worse by the HIV pandemic. Southern Africa and Eastern Europe also…
Author: All Africa
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Ireland's Future Prosperity Linked to a Thriving Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Population
Summary: Ireland’s future economic prosperity depends on how the Government and Irish society plans for diversity and attracts and retains some of the world’s leading talent, it was stated at the launch by An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern TD of the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network…
Author: Gay and Lesbian Equality Network
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Human Rights for Lesbians and Gays in the New South Africa: Still Much Work to Do
Zoliswa Nkonyana, Zizakele Sigasa, and Salome Masooa helped me to understand the critical importance of Atlantic’s work to support the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered and intersex people in South Africa. Sadly, these young women were not among the many South Africans I…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Study Cites Toll of AIDS Policy in South Africa
Original Source By CELIA W. DUGGER JOHANNESBURG — A new study by Harvard researchers estimates that the South African government would have prevented the premature deaths of 365,000 people earlier this decade if it had provided antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients and widely administered drugs…
Author: The New York Times
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Number of HIV/AIDS cases in sub-Saharan Africa expected to greatly outpace resources
WASHINGTON — The number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to far outstrip available resources for treatment by the end of the decade, forcing African nations to make difficult choices about how to allocate inadequate supplies of lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART),…
Author: National Academy of Sciences
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S. Africa Embraces Study Critical of Health Policy
Original Source Several organisations involved in this report are Atlantic grantees: Save the Children, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape. Funding for this publication was provided by Saving Newborn Lives/Save the…
Author: The New York Times
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Activists tackle defence lawyers in lesbian's murder
by NATASHA JOSEPH GENDER activists say they are to lodge complaints with the Law Society of South Africa against several lawyers representing nine men accused of beating a lesbian to death more than two years ago. On February 4, 2006, Zoliswa Nkonyana, 18, was kicked,…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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Changing the Story: Using the Arts to Advance Social Justice
In the 2008 film Sin Nombre, the audience follows a young Honduran woman named Sayra as she winds her way through Mexico and into the United States in search of a better life. Her trip is lonely and dangerous, and through her eyes Sin Nombre…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Nobayeni Dladla Appointed Country Director for South Africa at The Atlantic Philanthropies
Nobayeni Dladla has been appointed Country Director for South Africa at The Atlantic Philanthropies effective September 1, Senior Vice President Marcia Smith announced today. Dladla will be based in Atlantic’s Johannesburg office. In this newly created role, Dladla will leverage Atlantic’s activities and investments to…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies