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Beat It! 1999 Episode 2 - Special Report

In this Special Report from Beat It! 1999 episode 2 the team investigated what the implications would have been if HIV was to be made a notifiable disease.

Beat It! 1999 Episode 2 - Food for Life

Some rules for better living were discussed in this Beat It! episode's Food for Life insert with Marc Lottering supplying some comic relief.

Beat It! 1999 Episode 3 - Food for Life

In this section Adeline Mangcu and Luanne Epstein show us affordable was to maintain a healthy diet. Mark Lottering again makes for hilarious watching.

Beat It! 1999 Episode 4 - Food for Life

Adeline Mangcu and Luanne Epstein looked at the benefits of garlic in this insert.

Beat It! 1999 Episode 8 - Special Report

In this episode the Beat It! team looked at the state of HIV/AIDS advocacy in South Africa.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 2 - Support Group

In this Beat It! episode the Support Group members discussed experiences of disclosing to family and friends.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 3 - Dr Hermann Reuter

In the Support Group Dr Hermann Reuter answered the members' questions about the progression of HIV and various opportunistic infections. Dr Reuter also gave practical rules for better living with HIV.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 6 - Support Group

In the Support Group the members discussed their active sex lives post-HIV positive diagnosis.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 7 - Support Group

The results of not rolling out a prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission programme were driven home in this emotional Support Group discussion in which mothers who had lost their babies to AIDS shared their experiences with the viewers.

Patient Abuse

Patient Abuse follows the events leading up to the formation of the Treatment Action Campaign and their struggles to access affordable quality treatment for all South Africans, by challenging the patent laws protecting the profits of multinational drug companies. Patient Abuse tells of how the Treatment Action Campaign grew from a handful of people on the steps of St Georges Cathedral to an organisation of thousands with support from activists around the globe. In April of 2001 the TAC was victorious when the PMA withdrew it's case.