1994

The Aids Kaffirs of Johannesburg prison
Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) - July 29, 1994
Johannesburg Prison inmates who have tested HIV-positive are stigmatised, abused and denied rights granted to other prisoners, they told Philippa Garson IT S like you re a snake that someone caught, says Ben , a snake that everyone comes to look at. He s struggling to find the right words to describe what it feels like


Legal challenge to an unjust policy
Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) - July 29, 1994
Philippa Garson
THE plight of prisoners with HIV will be brought to the fore when an application is lodged by the Aids Law Project on their behalf. The application, to be heard in the Rand Supreme Court soon, will attempt to prevent these prisoners from being abused and stripped of their rights. It will also challenge existing prisons


Finally the state gets serious about Aids
Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) - July 22, 1994
The new health minister launches a massive Aids programme to deal with the looming crisis. Mark Gevisser reports AFTER years of official foot-dragging and negligence, the government has finally endorsed an Aids programme that could see as much as R256-million allocated to Aids prevention and care in the next two years.


Even HIV babies thrive on food and love
Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) - July 22, 1994
IT could be any children s home: that cloying nursery smell; the litter of toddler-paraphernalia; the baby-walkers clustered around a big-bosomed matron. But there s one difference to the Salvation Army s Bethesda Home in Soweto: all 14 of its infant occupants have been abandoned -- because they have HIV. Adrian s moth



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