{"id":50252,"date":"2023-06-21T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sobering-moments-at-opening-of-sa-aids-conference"},"modified":"2023-06-21T23:52:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T23:52:19","slug":"sobering-moments-at-opening-of-sa-aids-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sobering-moments-at-opening-of-sa-aids-conference","title":{"rendered":"Sobering moments at opening of SA Aids Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Amid the festivities during the opening ceremony of the 11th SA Aids Conference in Durban on Tuesday, there were also several sobering moments.<\/p>\n

Chief among these was when co-chair of the South African National Aids Council and chair of the Civil Society Forum, Steve Letsike \u2013 flanked by several representatives of civil society \u2013 told a fully packed plenary hall at the Durban International Convention Centre about a visit earlier on Tuesday to the Hillcrest Aids Trust Centre \u2013 a hospice where 80% of the admitted people (living with HIV) are in their end stage of life.<\/p>\n

Letsike told delegates that the youngest was a 14-year-old and 25-year-old.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should be concerned. We should be angry,\u201d Letsike told delegates.\u201c<\/p>\n

If our ARV (antiretroviral) programme has no efficient psychosocial support system extended to care and support, we are a ticking time bomb,\u201d Letsike said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur people are dying. We should not allow them to die when we have a successful ARV programme. We can\u2019t. Let\u2019s not lose this investment where we can live longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Youth and HIV<\/b><\/p>\n

Before Phaahla took to the podium \u2013 he delivered the keynote address on behalf of Deputy President Paul Mashatile \u2013 it was KwaZulu-Natal\u2019s Health MEC, Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu who lamented the quality of social behaviour communication, especially for young people.<\/p>\n

Simelane-Zulu said it looked like HIV messaging was not reaching young people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like our messaging on HIV is stale. It is the same message as when I was a teenager. We need to change that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

How to target youth and adolescents is among the key themes in several sessions throughout the three-day conference. For example, some sessions will explore PrEP uptake and barriers for adolescent girls and young women in Tshwane.<\/p>\n

In other sessions, the benefits and acceptability of technology such as using WhatsApp groups as a platform for health education among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa, will be explored, along with a session on how to address child and teenage pregnancies in KZN, that can be a key contributory factor in bringing down new HIV infections.<\/p>\n

Simelane-Zulu, in her speech, stressed the worrying number of teenage pregnancies in the province. From April to December last year, KZN recorded 26 515 pregnancies among girls between the ages of 10 and 19 and 1 254 of them were in the 10 to 14 age bracket.<\/p>\n

Gogo Silungile, from the organisation SA Positive Women Ambassadors, told Spotlight that what stood out for her from the opening ceremony is Simelane-Zulu\u2019s recognition of the high rate of teenage pregnancies and high rate of HIV among young people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope in future they\u2019ll engage young people themselves because it looks like we as adults are deciding for the young people. We need to sit down and listen to them and let them lead,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Silungile said her organisation worked with young people in and out of school and provided information and trained young people as peer educators. In some sessions, they also included boys and older men.<\/p>\n

“We need to create an environment where these two parties can come together and discuss sexual issues because girls say they don\u2019t discuss sex with their partners \u2013 they just do it. So, we try to capacitate both partners to talk about sex before they do it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Chair of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), Sibongile Tshabalala, told Spotlight that young people, particularly young women, need to be given a voice and allowed to communicate what their problems are around HIV and how they can be supported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we need to do as a country now is to give young women their space. We need to give them skills, we need to allow them to take charge of their struggles,\u201d she said. \u201cIf we are talking about young girls, aged 14 to 24, who are being infected with HIV but continue talking about them without them being here, I think we are still missing the point.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to SA Aids Conference chair, Dr Gloria Maimela, a youth HIV track is being launched at this year\u2019s conference that \u201cis run by youth, for youth who will set the tone and agenda on how we end the epidemic, for their sake\u201d. There will also be updates on what is new in paediatric and adolescent HIV with respect to long-acting injectables, among others.<\/p>\n

Legislation undermining the HIV response<\/b><\/p>\n

Another issue that permeated the speeches during the opening ceremony was the condemnation of Uganda\u2019s recently passed anti-homosexuality legislation. Letsike lashed out at those people who \u201chave become bystanders when countries such as Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and even Namibia introduced anti-homosexuality laws that seek to erase LGBTQ people\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey undermine the health agenda,\u201d Letsike said, \u201cand they undermine human rights of citizens in those countries. Injustice there means injustice everywhere. For all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maimela also took a swipe, saying that the latest developments in Uganda are \u201cmaking a mockery of the gains made in the fight against HIV\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no place for stigma and discrimination in our modern society,\u201d she said. \u201cWe, therefore, condemn the passing of the Ugandan anti-LGBTQIA+ law in the strongest terms. It is inhumane.\u201d<\/p>\n

While many of the speakers condemned the law passed by Uganda, Phaahla, however, stopped short of condemning Uganda outright but rather focused on South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would want to stress again that the South African Constitution forbids any form of discrimination on the basis of a person\u2019s sex, gender, or sexual orientation, whether on the part of the state or a private citizen.<\/p>\n

“Because of our firm belief that LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer\/questioning, asexual) rights are human rights, our government will continue to defend and advance these rights,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Spotlight after the opening ceremony, Tshabalala expressed her disappointment. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit disappointing and we were expecting our government to speak out [against Uganda\u2019s Bill]… the minister [of health] didn\u2019t say much, because they are afraid to speak about it. We don\u2019t know why,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Decriminalising sex work<\/b><\/p>\n

Phaahla was not the only minister who came in for criticism. Kholi Buthelezi, the activist who founded Sisonke \u2013 a South African movement for sex workers of all diversities \u2013 was among those who used the platform to call for the urgent decriminalisation of sex work.<\/p>\n

The first time Maimela called for \u201cthe speedy passing of the Amended Sexual Offences and Related Matters Bill that decriminalise sex work\u201d, a sex worker activist shouted yes from their seat and proceeded with a jovial skipping under an orange umbrella across the hall.<\/p>\n

Buthelezi in her speech said, \u201cCriminalisation of sex work leads to stigma, discrimination, and violence against sex workers, and enables an environment for law enforcement officials to abuse their power.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt creates an environment where sex workers are at high risk for acquiring HIV and STIs. The stigma and discrimination against sex workers also make it difficult to access PEP and PrEP from healthcare services even when they have experienced sexual violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

She referred to Justice Minister Ronald Lamola who, this month, \u201cwithout consultation, halt[ed] progress to decriminalise sex work\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis,” Buthelezi said, \u201cproves the lack of commitment to address gender-based violence and femicide, equal access to healthcare and justice, economic freedom and freedom of choice and association for sex workers by our ruling party and its Cabinet. This is how far yet near we are to decriminalising sex work,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

‘A diversity of voices’<\/b><\/p>\n

After the opening ceremony, Health DG Buthelezi, in an interview with Spotlight, welcomed a successful opening ceremony. He said he appreciated the \u201cdiversity of voices\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is good to also have people from the community with lived experiences so that it\u2019s not just scientists. We also want to hear some new stories and developments because we haven\u2019t had this conference since 2019, especially new developments on long-acting PrEP, injectables, and all of that. So, it [the conference] will be interesting.<\/p>\n

When Spotlight asked about the expected pilots for the HIV prevention injections, he said their team \u201cis still working on some protocols\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will have to follow up on that. With the dapiverine ring, I know we are quite advanced. It\u2019s the CAB-LA where we just need to finalise the protocols. We hope it will start early next year \u2013 if we are able to sort out a number of issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buthelezi could not immediately provide more details and said he will have to follow up with his team. Spotlight earlier reported that South Africa was expected to begin piloting the CAB-LA HIV prevention shot early this year. New modelling released in November last year showed that the injection could prevent as many as 52 000 new HIV infections in the next two decades if rolled out nationally.<\/p>\n

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