South Africa: Cape Town Study Brings Hope to Newborns Left Behind in HIV Treatment Advances

South Africa: Cape Town Study Brings Hope to Newborns Left Behind in HIV Treatment Advances

Research led by Professor Adrie Bekker is paving the way for an important HIV medicine to be made available to neonates in a way that is both safe and much more convenient than previous options. Spotlight met with the passionate clinician-scientist at her office in Cape Town.

Fighting for funds: A new era of HIV activism in South Africa

Source: Financial Mail “So, the US funding cuts happened, and I was looking for the noise! I was asking the other day, where are my people, why aren’t they shouting?” says Sisonke Msimang, the South African writer and political scientist.  Msimang was a vocal critic of the Aids denialism of the Mbeki era, supporting the health advocacy organisation Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in what became a landmark legal victory in 2002 that secured acces…