FATIMA HASSAN

Beat It! 1999 Episode 5 - Human Rights

In the first of a series of Human Rights inserts we interviewed Fatima Hassan from the AIDS Law Project about medical aid schemes and particularly the case against Old Mutual.

Beat It! 1999 Episode 6 - Human Rights

In the second Human Rights section Fatima Hassan from the AIDS Law Project spoke about the legal requirement to provide anyone testing for HIV with pre and post test counselling.

Beat It! 1999 Episode 7 - Human Rights

The Human Rights section went on to look at the discriminatory practices of the South African National Defence Force.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 3 - Red Ribbon and Red Noose

In this episode the Red Noose was awarded to Glaxo Wellcome because of the high price of AZT. The Red Ribbon in turn was awarded to Fatima Hassan and the AIDS Law Project for helping win the SAA case against unfair and discriminating labour practices.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 10 - Special Report

In this episode of Beat It! broadcast we looked at the victory for People Living with HIV/AIDS in the Constitutional Court. The court ruled that pre-employment testing was discriminatory and therefore unconstitutional.

Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2004 Episode 3 - Beating HIV at work

The Siyayinqoba Beat It! Support Group talked about the rights of HIV positive people at work in this episode. As an example the team used workers at a mine of Anglo Gold Ashanti. With the help of legal practitioners, we learnt the importance of understanding our rights and how they can help us in the workplace. Fatima Hassan, from the AIDS Law Project, joined the group and helped to shed a bit of light on how the rights of people living with HIV can be defended. Later Jason summarised the episode with the week's ‘Things we should remember'.

Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2006 Episode 12 - ARV Roll-out

Through the experiences of the Siyayinqoba support group, Barbara Twala from Mpumalanga, and Caroline Songqushwa and Nozuko Smile from Queenstown, we heard about the problems and sometimes fatal delays experienced by people trying to get access to ARV treatment through government hospitals and clinics. Fatima Hassan from the Joint Civil Society ARV Monitoring Forum and Thami Mseleku, the Director General of the Department of Health, also discussed these issues in the Siyayinqoba studio.

Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2006 Episode 18 - ARV treatment sites

In this weeks episode of Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2006 we are talking about how the slow process of accrediting ARV treatment sites is causing problems for people accessing ARVs, we speak to James Nonnies about the death of his son Msimelelo due to poor access to ARVs, we also speak to HIV positive inmate Sifiso Zulu about accessing ARVs at Westville prison in Durban. Fatima Hassan from the Joint Civil Society Monitoring Forum joins our support group to talk about the problems facing sites wanting to become accredited.

Barbara Hogan appointed as new Minister of Health.

President Motlanthe appointed Barbara Hogan to the position of Minister of Health. This move by the third democratically elected President of South Africa signalled that government's disastrous approach to HIV/AIDS had ended. Sadly over two million South Africans died of AIDS during the presidency of Thabo Mbeki and the tenure of Tshabalala-Msimang. At least 300,000 deaths could have been avoided had they merely met the most basic constitutional requirements.

TAC and ALP Press Conference on UNGASS - Parts 1 - 2

Sipho Mthathi, Fatima Hassan and Zackie Achmat discuss the objection by the South African government to the participation of the Treatment Action Camapign and the AIDS Law Project in the United Nations' General Assembly Special Session on AIDS.The TAC and the ALP were two of six organisations that had been prevented from accreditation through the deliberate intervention of UN member states. Namibia and Belarus were the only other two countries that exercised objections. Hundreds of organisations from across the world had been accredited because their governments did not choose to exercise an objection.