Redpeg: HIV/AIDS Newsletter: October 2011

Issue 7, October 2011

Dear ,

Welcome to the seventh issue of the Redpeg HIV/AIDS Newsletter.

In this issue we lead with the story on the recent setback in the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (or PrEP) trial. We take a look at why the KwaZulu Natal province recently received praise from UNAIDS, as well as the work of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in South Africa for the last 12 years and close with an article on the crippling effect of corruption in Swaziland.

We trust that you will enjoy this issue of Redpeg's HIV/AIDS Newsletter.

Sincerely,

Tim Boshoff
Redpeg

In this issue...

HIV/AIDS: Setback for PrEP as branch of trial is halted

KZN praised for HIV work

Redpeg Training Schedule 2011

SOUTH AFRICA: A timeline of HIV/AIDS activism

Corruption exceeds social services budget in Swaziland

HIV/AIDS: Setback for PrEP as branch of trial is halted

Hopes for a female-controlled HIV prevention tool have been dealt a blow by the termination of one part of a large African trial after it failed to show effectiveness

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KZN praised for HIV work

KwaZulu-Natal has become a success story in almost eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission. This is according to UN Programme on HIV/Aids executive director Michel Sidibé, who was addressing a press conference at the Office of the Premier in Durban.

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Redpeg Training Schedule 2011

Redpeg is offering the following fully accredited public HIV/AIDS training programmes from October-November 2011. Please contact Sandra Ncube at 011 476 5355 or sandra@redpeg.co.za for a quotation if you are interested in Redpeg's HIV/AIDS training programmes. To access the calendar, please click on the link below:

Redpeg 2011 HIV/AIDS Training Calendar

SOUTH AFRICA: A timeline of HIV/AIDS activism

In a new book, Fighting for our Lives the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), an HIV/AIDS lobby group, looks back on more than a decade of activism. IRIN/PlusNews presents a timeline of 12 years of highlights as the group translated action into wider access to HIV treatment:.

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Corruption exceeds social services budget in Swaziland

Swaziland's Minister of Finance, Majozi Sithole, has told the Senate that each year the country loses nearly double the annual social services budget to corruption, and non-governmental organisations are not being spared.

"Because of these practices service delivery has suffered," Sithole told the upper house.

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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors make an appeal for continued support in the Horn of Africa

UNICEF correspondent Anja Baron reports on a passionate plea made by UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors to help the suffering in the Horn of Africa.

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors make an appeal for continued support in the Horn of Africa

*There are more* free condoms up for grabs**	Come and collect free condoms for your workplace at the Redpeg Johannesburg office Just to let you know we still have a large supply of condoms which your company can collect from our office in Johannesburg. Just phone Sandra or Tim to arrange for collection, and you can get up to 1000 free condoms for your workplace.