Results List
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Shikaya Facing the Past Project
$300,540
Resource type: Grantee
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Community Law and Rural Development Centre
$408,739
Resource type: Grantee
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Study refutes claims patients stopping ARVs for grant money
Source: Cape Times (South Africa)
Treatment Action Campaign is an Atlantic grantee. by JENNY GROSS ALTHOUGH there have been reports of Aids patients refusing life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to lower their blood counts enough to qualify for social grants, a three-year study in Khayelitsha found no evidence that people give…
Resource type: News
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Zimbabweans get visa-free SA entry
Source: Business Day (South Africa)
Original Source The University of the Witwatersrand’s Forced Migration Studies Programme is an Atlantic grantee. WILSON JOHWA, Political Correspondent SA is to drop the visa requirement for Zimbabwean passport holders while also granting them special residency permits allowing them to work in the country. Home Affairs Minister…
Resource type: News
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Balfour's application dismissed by judge
Source: SAPA
A bid to block the personal release of a report on the death of an HIV-positive prisoner by Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour was dismissed in the North Gauteng High Court on Friday. Pretoria Judge Brian Southwood dismissed the application for leave to appeal a…
Resource type: News
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Out of stock = out of life
Source: Mail & Guardian
by NOSIMILO NDLOVU Provincial health departments faced with antiretroviral drug shortages are defiantly overspending on their budgets, rather than see patients die. Limpopo anticipates shortages and is overspending to keep patients on treatment. "We are employed to save lives so we would rather overspend now…
Resource type: News
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Lawyers fight to improve refugee facility
Source: Pretoria News
by Zelda Venter Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) are to approach the Pretoria High Court in a bid to force the government to improve conditions at a holding facility for refugees in Musina, or have it closed down. This follows the outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe,…
Resource type: News
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Halting ARV rollout in Free State was regrettable
Source: BuaNews (South Africa)
Bloemfontein - The decision to place a moratorium on initiating new patients on Anti Retroviral (ARV) treatment in the Free State due to a shortage of funds, was a difficult one, says the Minister of Health Barbara Hogan. The Free State Department of Health had…
Resource type: News
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Gauteng health minister: R5bn needed for turnaround
Source: Mail & Guardian
Gauteng needs at least R5-billion to turn around its health system, a local government minister said on Wednesday. Gauteng health minister Brian Hlongwa said many people did not realise the "scale and scope of the challenges" the department faced. "If you ask me a ballpark…
Resource type: News
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Institute of Medicine
$400,000
Resource type: Grantee
