Chief among these was when co-chair of the South African National Aids Council and chair of the Civil Society Forum, Steve Letsike – flanked by several representatives of civil society – told a fully packed plenary hall at the Durban International Convention Centre about a visit earlier on Tuesday to the Hillcrest Aids Trust Centre – a hospice where 80% of the admitted people are in their end stage of life.“We should be concerned. We should be angry,” Letsike told delegates.
Simelane-Zulu, in her speech, stressed the worrying number of teenage pregnancies in the province. From April to December last year, among girls between the ages of 10 and 19 and 1 254 of them were in the 10 to 14 age bracket. Chair of the Treatment Action Campaign , 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.
“They undermine the health agenda,” Letsike said, “and they undermine human rights of citizens in those countries. Injustice there means injustice everywhere. For all of us.” “I would want to stress again that the South African Constitution forbids any form of discrimination on the basis of a person’s sex, gender, or sexual orientation, whether on the part of the state or a private citizen.
Buthelezi in her speech said, “Criminalisation of sex work leads to stigma, discrimination, and violence against sex workers, and enables an environment for law enforcement officials to abuse their power.
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