ERIC GOEMAERE

Beat It! 2000 Episode 3 - Special Report

In the Special Report we looked at the successes of the PMTCT programme in Khayelitsha and how the provision of this prevention programme encouraged mothers-to-be to test for HIV.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 4 - Red Ribbon and Red Noose

In this episode the Red Noose was awarded to doctors who shamelessly benefit from the HIV/AIDS epidemic and are silent on the exorbitant prices of laboratory services and medication. The Red Ribbon went to Doctor Eric Goemaere and MSF.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 7 - Special report

With an overt political angle this episode of Beat It! looked at the reasons why the successes of the Khayelitsha PMTCT programme were not being rolled out nationally. The results of not rolling out the PMTCT programme was then driven home in an emotional Support Group discussion in which mothers who have lost their babies through mother-to-child-transmission shared their experiences.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 8 - Special Report

In this Beat It! episode the economic implications of not rolling out an antiretroviral treatment plan were looked at. Clem Sunter of Anglo American spoke about the true cost of having an ailing workforce that might need to be replaced on an ongoing basis because of AIDS not being treated.

Beat It! 2002 Episode 8 - Special Report

In this Special Report we accompanied Zackie Achmat, Mathew Damane and others to Brazil to learn more about generic drug.

Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2006 Ep. 11 - Gender based violence - Lorna Mlofana

In 2004/2005, 306 rapes cases were reported in Khayelitsha alone. The 306 reported rapes however do not give a true reflection of the incidence of rape in this community as 42% of Rape Crisis clients did not report their rapes to the SAPS in the same year. Nationally only 7 - 9% of perpetrators of reported rape cases are convicted and between 40 - 60% of all reported rape cases are withdrawn. What can and should be done to address this social ill? In this episode the group, with the Lorna Mlofana's case as study, reflected on how sustained community mobilisation can ensure justice.

Nelson Mandela visits Zackie Achmat at home

Nelson Mandela visited Zackie Achmat with the intention to ask him to reconsider commencing antiretroviral therapy. Zackie respectfully refused Mandela's request prompting Mandela to say in a press conference after their meeting that Zackie "is a role model and his action is based on fundamental principles, which we all admire." "People far beyond our borders are aware of the principled stand that he has taken. It would have been feeble for me to come to him to say: "I want you now to change; to take drugs," because his position is that as long as drugs are not available to everybody especially the poor, he will not take them."