2008 in the News
February 2008: Professor Nicoli Nattrass is awarded the Bill Venter/Altron
Literary Award for her book The Moral Economy of AIDS in South Africa.
August 2008: ASRU attends International AIDS conference in Mexico City.
December 2008: Brendan Maughan-Brown graduated with a PhD in Economics
and was awarded a UCT research fellowship.
February 2009: Nicoli Nattrass in conversation with Ida Susser at the
launch of Susser’s book, AIDS, Sex and Culture. Global Politics of Survival in
Southern Africa.
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Old News Items
Body Maps of hope captured in mosaic.
The figures and life stories of three women now grace a section of the Medical School library's wall, thanks to an evocative mosaic inspired by the Body Maps Project. Read the article in the Monday Paper.
Researchers win Scholarships and Awards
Colin Almeleh and Brendan Maughan-Brown won Fox Fellowships to Yale University (September 2006 – June 2007). Celeste Coetzee won the Founder’s medal for the best Economics Masters thesis in South Africa (for her work on the labour market effects of providing antiretroviral treatment). Annabelle Wienand was awarded a Canadian International Development Agency scholarship for a graduate exchange in HIV/AIDS at the University of British Columbia. Congratulations to them all.
AIDS and South Africa: Deadly quackery
HIV causes AIDS. This is not a controversial claim but an established fact, based on more than 20 years of solid science. It is as certain as the descent of humans from apes and the falling of dropped objects to the ground.
So why reiterate the obvious? Because lately, a bizarre theory has gained ground - one that claims that HIV is harmless, and that the antiretroviral drugs that curb the growth of the virus cause rather than treat AIDS. Such talk sounds to most of us like quackery, but the theory has emerged as a genuine menace to public health in the United States and, particularly, in South Africa. Read More
HIV denialists ignore large gap in the study they cite.
In a recent letter to Nature, Nathan Geffen, Nicoli Nattrass and Glenda Grey expose the dishonesty of AIDS denialists use of data. Read more
In South Africa, Poor AIDS Patients Adopt Risky Ploy
DURBAN, South Africa -- Zolile, a 25-year-old single mother, is one of the lucky few here who receive advanced anti-AIDS drugs free from the government. The pills work just the way they're supposed to, boosting her immune system, relieving her symptoms and restoring her health as long as she takes them twice a day. Read More in the Wall Street Journal...
'Yes Men' Undermine SA Medical Institutions
Johannesburg (Sunday Times): THE independence of some of the country's key medical institutions is being compromised by changes to the law and the appointment of "yes men" to top posts. Academics, medics and activists have sounded the alarm at how the Health Department is gaining sway over the Medical Research Council (MRC), Medicines Control Council (MCC) and the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Read More...
Small clinic at centre of debate over traditional medicine
DURBAN, 1 May (IRIN) - Over the past few months, hundreds of people have been streaming into an office building in Pinetown, on the outskirts of South Africa's east coast city of Durban, looking for the clinic that sells ubhejane - a herbal mixture they believe can treat HIV/AIDS. Read More...
AIDS denialism
AIDS, Science and Governance: The battle Over Antiretroviral Therapy in Post-Apartheid South Africa
by Nicoli Nattrass
Echoes of Lysenko: State-Sponsored Pseudo-Science in South Africa
by Nathan Geffen
 Nondumiso Hlwele presenting a copy of the book 'Long Life' to Lucas Radebe on the occasion of him being awarded an honorary degree by UCT.
 Prof Nicoli Nattrass has won the 2005 UCT Book Award for her work The Moral Economy of Aids in South Africa.
Book marries ethical and economic aspects of Aids
HIV Positive is the message on Professor Nicoli Nattrass's T-shirt. There are signs pointing to Aids activism everywhere in her office. And she is gratified that her endeavours in this area have been recognised along with her academic work on Aids by the 2005 UCT Book Award, presented for her work The Moral Economy of Aids in South Africa.
Read the Article.
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