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OUR RIGHTS WORKING FOR US
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| 1999 |
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 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.
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.
The Human Rights section went on to look at the discriminatory practices of the South African National Defence Force.
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| 2002 |
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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.
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| 2004 |
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 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'.
Have men who have sex with men been ignored in our response to HIV in Africa? Statistics say that the majority of people infected with HIV they are heterosexuals. Twenty one years ago when HIV was discovered it was mainly a homosexual disease. Has the experience of gay men in particular been almost forgotten because of these facts? This episode of Siyayinqoba Beat It! set out to find out.
What can companies realistically do to accommodate the health and wellness needs of their HIV positive employees? What programmes should companies put in place to help address the impact of the HIV epidemic in the lives of their employees? In this episode of Siyayinqoba Beat It! we looked at what clothing and textile manufacturing companies were doing and the challenges they faced in trying to accommodate HIV positive workers. We also looked at what SACTWU was doing to assist companies in making a difference.
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| 2005 |
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Our constitution states that discrimination on the basis of one's gender, sexual orientation and any unfair discrimination is not acceptable and yet by not employing people living with HIV or AIDS, the South African National Defence Force continues to discriminate against people living with HIV. The SANDF is exempt from key legislation which is the basis of South Africa's non-discriminatory policy on HIV/AIDS. The support group debated and questioned why the law allows this kind of discrimination to continue in the South African Defence Force.
In this episode we visited Nunu Sigasa, a lesbian woman, who runs educational workshops after her experience of being raped and infected with HIV. We learnt more about the views and work done by Dumisani Rebombo of the Men as Partners Project and Reverend Bafana Khumalo of the Commission for Gender Equality.
By now everyone in South Africa will have to deal with a loss of a friend, colleague or a family member to AIDS? Death is something that we do not want to talk about, but we have to talk about it and face the reality that many people are still dying because they are not accessing ARVs soon enough. What should we do when someone close to us pass away? Apart from organising funerals and the stress of covering the cost there is also the emotional pain and suffering. Remembering those who have gone is part of the healing process after the loss of the loved one. We welcome Matshidiso Habana to the support group. Matshidiso is our youth guest today in our discussion between death and loss. |
| 2006 |
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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.
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