SOCIAL: Cities Commit to Defend Biodiversity
Monday, September 15, 2008 at 09:51AM IInter Press Service | 15 September 2008
SOCIAL: Will Gender Protocol Help Business Women?
Friday, September 12, 2008 at 10:09AM 
SOCIAL: Rights Work Hampered by Closure Threat
Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 11:58AM Inter Press Service | 27 Aug 2008
By Kristin Palitza
HEALTH: Male Circumcision…
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 12:58PM
Panoscope | 06 Aug 2008
By Kristin Palitza
Male circumcision is being toted as increasingly important in HIV prevention across the globe, but experts caution on the need to link to prevention education and counselling to be most effective. Recent studies have confirmed that male circumcision reduces HIV acquisition in heterosexual men by 60 per cent.
HEALTH: Hopes of achieving Universal Access 2010 targets dim
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 12:36PM
Panoscope | 05 Aug 2008
By Kristin Palitza
Only a few countries in the world are likely to achieve universal access to antiretroviral treatment by 2010, and almost 70 per cent of HIV-positive persons in need of treatment have not received it.
With only two years to go before the 2010 deadline, the world’s top HIV experts yesterday called for a dramatic scale up of combination prevention that focusses on abstinence, behaviour change and correct condom use.
“There is a huge need for leadership to form the basis for [better] results in treatment and prevention,” said Alex Coutinho, executive director of the Infectious Diseases Institute in Kampala, Uganda.
SOCIAL: Small Farmers Pushed to Plant GM Seed
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 08:32AM Inter Press Service | 21 July 2008
By Kristin Palitza
HEALTH: Refugees Denied Access to Healthcare
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 08:51AM Inter Press Service | 1 July 2008
By Kristin Palitza
DURBAN, Jul 1 (IPS) - Refugees and migrants do not have adequate access to health care services in South Africa, aid organisations and NGOs say. This is particularly detrimental for those who are HIV-positive and in need of continuous antiretroviral (ARV) medication: interrupted treatment can mean illness, development of drug-resistance and ultimately
SOCIAL: Floods Batter KZN Poor
Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 04:13PM Mail & Guardian | 20-26 June 2008
Informal settlements worst hit by coastal downpour
By Kristin Palitza
As floods wreaked havoc on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast this week, it was the poorest residents of the region who suffered the most: more than a thousand homes, almost all in informal settlements, were swept away.
SOCIAL: Q&A: "There Has Been Xenophobia for a Long Time in This Country"
Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 08:43PM Inter Press Service | 20 June 2008
Interview with three youth in South Africa
DURBAN, Jun 20 (IPS) - Young adults in South Africa increasingly feel government has let them down. They lament lack of access to employment opportunities, poverty and many have pretty much lost hope that their situation will improve within the next decade.
WILDLIFE: Sardine Fever Hits SA – the Greatest Shoal on Earth Has Arrived
Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 08:36PM Sondag | 12 June 2008
By Kristin Palitza
South Africa has been hit by sardine fever: This week, the greatest shoal on earth has been moving down the Wild Coast towards the shore of KwaZulu-Natal. Thousands of spectators and hundreds of fishermen ready themselves along our South Coast beaches to watch the madness in the sea when billions of tiny, silvery fish make their way through the Indian Ocean, while trying to escape thousands of hungry predators.
HEALTH: Flunking Life: HIV lessons learnt but not lived in South Africa
Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 04:41AM Panos | 31 May 2008
By Kristin Palitza
South Africa (2010 Features): South African children and teenagers know quite a lot about HIV and AIDS, but very little of this information translates into behaviour change when they become sexually active. Experts put this dangerous trend down to a gap between education and lived experience.