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Some rules for better living were discussed in this Beat It! episode's Food for Life insert with Marc Lottering supplying some comic relief.
 Marc Lottering presents the Red Noose and Positive Person's Award. In this episode the noose went to all the healthcare practitioners who disclose HIV positive people's status without their consent. The award in turn went to all those people who on principle will never disclose the HIV status of anyone else.
In this section Adeline Mangcu and Luanne Epstein show us affordable was to maintain a healthy diet. Mark Lottering again makes for hilarious watching.
This time round the Noose was reserved for the drug companies, called by name, that made ARVs for PMTCT unavailable for those that needed it most. The Positive award in turn went to everyone involved in the PMTCT clinical trials.
Adeline Mangcu and Luanne Epstein looked at the benefits of garlic in this insert.
In this episode the Red Noose went to all those people who argued that the unborn babies of HIV positive mom's should become infected with HIV to lessen the burden on society of AIDS orphans. The Positive Person's Award in turn went to all the organisations that were looking after these AIDS orphans.
In this Positive Person and Red Noose insert Marc Lottering berated healthcare workers that gave HIV positive people sub-standard care and treatment. He prescribed some neck surgery with the help of the noose for them. He then went on to award the Positive Person Award to Zanele who took on the discriminatory practices of Old Mutual's medical aid scheme.
Marc Lottering once again with flair and just the right amount of humour rightly presented the Red Noose to all the doctor's and nurses who would test their patients for HIV without the patient's informed consent. The Positive Person's Award went to all the drug companies that undertook to continue to supply ARVs to all the patients in their drug trials.
Marc Lottering described how he would like to use the red tape used by pharmaceutical companies to prevent South Africa from the accessing cheaper drugs to strangle these companies. He presented the Positive Person's Award to all those fighting to make treatment cheaper and accessible; Desiree Booysen, Deena Bosch, Lee Bosch, Dr Hermann Reuter, Thanduxolo Doro, Adelaide Mangcu.
In the final episode of the 1999 series and in his last stint on the show Marc Lottering presented the Noose to all those individuals who weren't advocating for the rights of HIV positive people, for treatment and better prevention programmes. He went on to present the Positive Person award to Nkosi Johnson and his mother Gail for fighting HIV discrimination in the school system.
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