Young people have relationships and engage in sex; but sometimes this is risky for any number of reasons; risky sex is unprotected sex; sometimes though young girls particularly can also be strong and not be pressured into sex; it is not easy testing positive for HIV; but it is also not a death sentence.
Switch on of Soul City’s latest innovation The Good life TV network on DSTV Channel 199 Tonight!
South African viewers will for the first time on 1 December, 2015 tune in to gripping, entertaining and informative dedicated health and lifestyle channel The Good Life Network (GLN) on DStv channel 199.
#WorldAidsDay: High levels of infection in young girls and women
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has told EWN an increase in infections is the result of numerous factors.
HIV is still an emergency
Antiretroviral treatment may have lowered the death rate in people living with HIV, but the rate of new infections remains extremely high. And HIV is still an emergency.
The Thusanang Young Women’s Club in Glaudina, North West, is a club that consists of unemployed Young Women only. The club hosted a Work Readiness Workshop for community members that are currently unemployed on 26th November 2015
Rise Young Women’s Clubs 16 Days of Activism Campaign
The 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children is an international awareness-raising campaign.
Tackling fatal links between TB, HIV and alcohol
There is a strong link between TB, HIV and alcohol, and the government needs to respond quickly to the call for more effort to be made in tackling this fatal link.
Why South Africa can be accused of hating its young women
The extent of gender based violence in South Africa is rarely understood. It involves physical and psychological harm, humiliation, mental or sexual harm or suffering, threats of such acts, coercion and other arbitrary deprivations of liberty - and its impact is chilling.
