FAGHMEDA MILLER

Beat It! 1999 Episode 2 - Treatment Literacy

Dr Andrews and Faghmeda Miller discussed some general rules for better living with HIV/AIDS.

Beat It! 1999 Episode 3 - Treatment Literacy

In the dedicated Treatment Literacy section Dr Andrews tells us what the difference is between HIV and AIDS.

Beat It! 1999 Episode 4 - Treatment Literacy

Dr Steve Andrews and Faghmeda Miller discuss the differences between HIV and AIDS.

Beat It! 1999 Episode 5 - Treatment Literacy

Dr Steve Andrews and Faghmeda Miller continue their discussion, started in the previous episode, around the differences between HIV and AIDS.

Beat It! 1999 Episode 6 - Treatment Literacy

The doctor and patient discussed the symptoms that are experienced soon after HIV infection due to the immune system responding to the HI virus. They also started to discuss the importance of a CD4 count.

Beat It! 1999 Episode 7 - Treatment Literacy

Dr Andrews explained what a CD4 count can tell both the doctor and the patient and gave sound advice on how to live a healthier and longer life.

Beat It! 1999 Episode 8 - Treatment Literacy

Dr Andrews and Faghmeda discuss what a CD4 count of less than 200 means and look at ways of delaying progression to stage 4 of the disease.

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.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 12 – Support Group

We invited traditional healer Mercy Manci to join the support group where she showed what the major benefit of enlisting traditional healers into the response to the epidemic can be. Traditional healers can and do provide the very necessary emotional and spiritual support that people living with HIV require.

Beat It! 2002 Episode 2 - Support Group

In this episode the Beat It! Support Group discussed sex and the positive person, safer sex amongst the youth, and women's vulnerability and how it undermines safe sex initiatives.

Beat It! 2002 Episode 5 - Support Group

Disclosing to ones family is very often the first step most people take in coming to terms with an HIV positive test result. It being the first step however doesn't make it any easier. In this discussion the support group members shared their experiences of disclosing to their families.

Beat It! 2002 Episode 7 - Support Group

In this episode members of the Support Group went on to share their experiences of antiretrovirals after watching an insert in which support group member Nontsikelelo spoke about her treatment experiences.

Beat It! 2002 Episode 9 - Support Group

The Support Group, after having watched an insert about support group member Faghmeda Miller's experiences with ARVs, discussed ARVs in their lives and the side effects some of them encountered.