WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2007-10-05 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[This woman once more proves that she is more honest and genuine than the Kleptomaniacal Medical Witch who is our Minister of Health whom Mbeki defends with his life. As always, Mbeki only defends those close to him for the sake of “image” while firing those of “substance”. What a jerk. Jan]
By Di Caelers
Former deputy health minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge may have lost her official title but, as she pleaded for openness around HIV and Aids in place of stigma and secrecy, it was clear that her popularity was firmly intact.
Madlala-Routledge, making her first official speech locally since the furore over her controversial sacking in August, led by example when she told the audience at an AGM in Khayelitsha that she had personally lost “many” of her relatives to the pandemic.
She was the guest speaker at the AGM of Empilweni, a community-based mental health project which provides counselling to children and teens affected by HIV and Aids, domestic abuse and violence.
| ‘There are not enough doctors and nurses’ |
Madlala-Routledge got a rousing welcome after being ushered in by a praise singer, with many of the audience members on their feet, clapping her into the venue.
Further applause followed sporadically throughout her speech.
Steering clear of any obvious reference to her difference of opinion with President Thabo Mbeki and Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on the HIV and Aids question, Madlala-Routledge did however refer to Uganda’s success story, which she said was thanks to “a leadership that stood up and openly said we have a problem”.
“These leaders encouraged their people to also speak openly and between 1989 and 1995 (that country) showed a sharp decline in infections and a dramatic change in risk behaviour,” she said.
The former deputy health minister is widely credited with bringing activists and the authorities on to the same side following years of controversy on the national approach to fighting HIV and Aids. Her successor has yet to be announced.
| ‘We have a very good law in the Mental Health Act’ |
Of her personal experience Madlala-Routledge, originally from KwaZulu-Natal, said she had become almost afraid to telephone home to speak to her mother.
“I have personally lost many of my relatives (to HIV and Aids) … and I’m scared of who she will tell me is next. The latest is one of my cousins,” she said.
Pleading for openness, Madlala-Routledge said too much stigma remained in communities, with shocking consequences. “We mustn’t keep HIV and Aids under the carpet (because) we’re allowing it to spread and conquer us, to take us over and this is not good.”
The problem, she said, lay in South Africa’s national policy which “has tended to treat HIV differently from how it’s treated other illnesses, like diabetes for example”.
“That’s resulted in people not wanting to speak openly about it when they are ill.”
Focusing attention on the under-recognised issue of the mental health effects of the pandemic, especially on affected children and adolescents, Madlala-Routledge said one of the main problems in South Africa lay with lack of human resources for health.
“There are not enough doctors and nurses, and it’s worse when it comes to psychologists and psychiatrists.
“We have a very good law in the Mental Health Act which stipulates that mental health services must be provided in communities, but the lack of human resources results in difficulty with implementation.”
Responding to problems raised by local community members, who said they had been unable to engage with the provincial health department over areas of concern, she promised to facilitate a meeting.
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