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by PEROSHNI GOVENDER South Africa will not meet a target of providing life-prolonging drugs to 80% of people living with HIV/Aids by 2011 due to logistical problems and a lack of personnel, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Tuesday. "We are now covering 700 000…

Original Source The University of KwaZulu-Natal is an Atlantic grantee. by ANNABEL JACOBY JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - As recently as last year, professors Hoosen Coovadia and Salim Abdool Karim, two of South Africa’s foremost HIV researchers, were two of the health department’s greatest enemies. Former…

Original Source JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Over 60 000 children, aged between a month and five years, die in South Africa each year, according to a report released at a health summit in Johannesburg on Tuesday. "Many of the children die at home having had…

by Gabi Khumalo Pretoria - South Africans are still faced with human rights challenges which have shifted them away from their culture and values, says South African Human Rights Commission Chairperson Jody Kollapen. Speaking at the 3rd Human Rights Conference on Tuesday, Mr Kollapen said…

by ELLA SMOOK Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu has warned that South Africa remains perched on a powder keg of inequality as a result of the gap between rich and poor. Delivering the keynote |address at the first international Chief of Chaplains Conference taking place in…

Nursing education in South Africa is to receive a R70-million boost in the next four years with a donation from international donor organisation Atlantic Philanthropies. The grant is targeted at increasing the quality and quantity of nurse training in South Africa and to provide possibilities…

Shielding victims from abusers under spotlight by Karyn Maughan Justice bosses don't want to be ordered to protect South Africa's child rape victims from the horror of facing their alleged abusers in court. The Justice Department was to ask the Constitutional Court today to overturn…

  by Fanie du Toit and Natalie Jaynes Precisely 10 years ago to the day, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu handed over the first five volumes of the final report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to President Nelson Mandela. This week the Institute for…

After much speculation about the media's influence on the recent outbreaks of xenophobic violence, Daily Sun is now subject of an official complaint about their coverage of non-nationals. The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) and its partner Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA)…

  Supporting advocates who work to persuade members of the U.S. Congress of the necessity of allocating more federal money for children’s health programmes... Backing public interest lawyers whose arguments convince the U.S. Supreme Court that capital punishment for youth is unconstitutional.... Convincing lawmakers to…