HERMANN REUTER

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 4 - Dr Hermann Reuter

Dr Hermann Reuter gave sound and practical advise about nutrition for People Living with HIV/AIDS. He encouraged HIV positive people to eat as often and as they can to counter the weight loss that accompanies the late stages of HIV infection.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 5 - Dr Hermann Reuter

This insert argued that through becoming treatment literate and knowing one's rights, when faced with poor service in the public health sector one can demand better service.

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 - Support Group

In the support group discussion Dr Hermann Reuter gave the members vital information on how TB is transmitted and what TB treatment entails.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 9 - Support Group

In this support group get together Dr Hermann Reuter provided the members with treatment literacy around shingles. This opportunistic infection of the nervous system is very painful and needs to be treated as soon as symptoms are experienced.

Beat It! 2000 Episode 10 - Support Group

In the Beat It! support group Dr Reuter shared some rules for better living with the members. Antoinette Fouché confessed to smoking marijuana and the doctor pointed out that smoking "dagga" holds no benefits for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Beat It! 2002 Episode 7 - Special Report

In the Special Report insert the Beat It! team looked at the success of the MSF ARV pilot programme in Khayelitsha. The episode made an impassioned call for the roll-out of antiretroviral therapy nationally.

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.

Beat It! 2002 Episode 9 – Special Report

In this episode of Beat It! the Team exposed how funeral insurance companies discriminated against men and women who had passed away because of AIDS, placing strain on their bereaved families.

Beat It! 2002 Episode 12 - Special Report

Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2004 Episode 7 - Children on ARVs beat HIV

Nomandla Yako brought her son, Thamsanqa, to the Siyayinqoba Beat It! support group to share the difficulties she went through when Thamie was a bit younger. She went on to say that since he started antiretroviral therapy his health improved drastically. In the insert we also got to meet the nine year old Jady Grasland who had had horrible disfiguring facial warts until she started taking ARVs.

Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2004 Episode 25 - Lusikisiki ARV programme

In Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape, a pioneering project showed that when healthcare workers and the community work together, they can implement life-saying antiretroviral medication just as well as more well-resourced urban areas.

Lusikisiki ARV programme - Interview with Dr Hermann Reuter

On this source tape we conducted and interview with Dr Hermann Reuter of Medecins Sans Frontieres in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. Dr Reuter and the MSF team set up a ARV clinic in this rural community to show that ARVs could be administered in resource poor communities with limited infrastructure.

Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2006 Episode 20 - ARV Side Effects

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.