The Western Cape
10 July 2011
MSF has run an HIV programme in Khayelitsha, Cape Town for ten years.
03 June 2011
In June 2011, MSF commemorated 10 years of antiretroviral (ARV) response in Khayelitsha, South Africa, together with the residents of the community, local schools, civil society representatives such as the Treatment Action Campaign, partners such as the Zip Zap Circus School, and health authorities, staff, and supporters from the City of Cape Town, and the Province of the Western Cape. Khayelitsha is one of the largest and poorest townships with the highest HIV prevalence in South Africa, hit with a dual-epidemic- tuberculosis. However the 10 year anniversary was something to celebrate because the ARV treatment programme has become a success on many levels. The programme demonstrates the impact of introducing comprehensive HIV care...
05 June 2011
Squinting in the courtyard of a medical clinic in Khayelitsha, health-care worker Katherine Hilderbrand tries to remember the way things were here 12 years ago, before clinics could offer antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to people infected with HIV.
"We started with only one room in the clinic. The staff thought nobody with HIV would ever come, there was too much stigma. The long benches in the waiting room were empty, but individuals would show up privately. In those days, people would come in really, really sick and it was usually too late..."
But on Friday morning, Hilderbrand joined hundreds of health-care workers, patients, HIV/AIDS activists and community members in a cheerful march zigzagging through Khayelitsha to...
03 June 2011
Thousands of Khayelitsha residents who have tested HIV positive are living a lot longer thanks to an antiretroviral (ARV) initiative.
Public health clinics in the area became the first to distribute ARVs with the help of among others Doctors without Borders.
Ten years ago, about 100 HIV positive people in Khayelitsha used antiretrovirals, now more that 20,000 rely on the drug to live a quality life. A Site C community member, Thobani Ncapanyi, has been living with the virus for the past 14 years.
The 40-year-old is originally from the Eastern Cape and said he moved to Khayelitsha in 2001 when he heard about the ARV programme. Ncapanyi said the ARV drugs have not only prolonged his life, but made it possible for him to watch his son grow...
07 June 2011
About 20,000 people in Khayelitsha are taking ARVs. This was revealed during the Treatment Action Campaign's 10th anniversary of the first roll-out of ARVs in public (clinics) in South Africa... Dr Eric Goemaere of Doctors Without Borders, who have been running the programme with the the department of health in Khayelitsha, said he was happy that people are finally talking about AIDS.
"When people start talking about this disease, that is when the healing processes begins. They need to understand their problems to be able to find solutions to them," said Goemaere.
03 June 2011
Khayelitsha
03 June 2011
Summary of Khayelitsha Activity Report 2001-2011
03 June 2011
Khayelitsha: celebrating 10 years of HIV care & addressing new challenges ahead
03 June 2011
Khayelitsha Activity Report 2001-2011
26 May 2011
Ten years ago, Khayelitsha, in Cape Town, was the first place to make antiretroviral drugs available to the public sector, marking a milestone in the beginning of the end of AIDS denialism and the fight for treatment in South Africa.
With more than half its population unemployed, Khayelitsha is one of South Africa's largest and fastest-growing townships, and home to one of the highest burdens of HIV and TB infection nationally and globally...
Alarming as those figures may be, Khayelitsha is a beacon of hope for the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, where the provision of ARVs had been fraught, marked by a bitter stand-off between AIDS activists and government over the slow pace of the rollout...
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