Articles
To Disclose or Not to Disclose - A Dilemma
November 2002
"I am brave and nothing can stop me from doing my duty…[d]eath is uncertain. It may come any moment, maybe today. Do you find anything abnormal in my behaviour?"
These remarkable words were uttered by an HIV positive surgeon who got infected through a needle prick while performing a surgery on a patient who was HIV positive.
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Wrecktifying ITPA
October 2002
A Critique of the Proposed Amendments to the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 by Aditi Thorat with inputs from Tripti Tandon of the Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS unit.
Sex work is one of the oldest professions in the history of mankind, but it's a long way from being an acceptable one. Society has always looked at sex work as immoral and destructive, and treated women in sex work/ prostitution as "fallen women". Rarely, and only recently, has the discourse on sex work highlighted the perspective of women in the profession and their demands.Read more
Protecting the Next Generation
September 2002
Shehzad Mansuri
On 5 July 2002, the Constitutional Court of South Africa passed a landmark judgement directing the government to make Nevirapine available to all HIV positive pregnant women in public health settings. Nevirapine is a drug, which reduces the risk of the HIV infection transmission to the baby by 50% when administered to the woman in labour along with a single dose to the newborn.Read more