Annotated Bibliography: Voluntary Counselling and Testing

maintained despite increasing levels of illness. The model thus gives an estimate of likely costs
should all needs continue to be met at mid-1990s levels. Both public and private sectors will be
seriously affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with seroprevalence levels in the total population
reaching 13% and 9% respectively by 2010 under a best scenario projection. The effects the
situation in the public sector can easily be confirmed by using antenatal seroprevalence data,
there is little confirmatory
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(2000). Tonic for diseases in leaves: Cancer Bush may improve appetite and mood of
AIDS and TB sufferers. The star.
Ref ID: 2521
Keywords: benefits/infection
Abstract: Southern African plant could help AIDS and TB sufferers by improving appetite, possibly
suppressing secondary infections, and elevating mood, and in so doing dramatically improve the
quality of their lives. Tablets made of milled leaves of a carefully selected variety of Sutherlandia
or Cancer Bush is not being touted as a "cure" for AIDS, TB, or cancers by the multi-disciplinary
team of scientists researching and developing it. Rather, it is a profound tonic with multiple
mechanism of action. The cancer Bush has been used by indigenous healers and rural folk of
Khoikhoi descent for hundreds, and possibly even thousands, of years as a remedy for diverse
ailments, in including cancers, TB, peptic ulcers, diabetes and all infectious diseases. Some of
the important benefits of the plant have been documented for the time in a book called People's
Plants (Briza), written by Rand Afrikaans University Botany professor Ben-Erik van Wyk, and
Cape Town-based doctor, Nigel Gericke.
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Ref ID: 2384
(2000). Time to drop politically correct jargon about disease. Eastern Province Herald.
Abstract: Pastor A A Kern of the Potter's House Christian Church in Port Elizabeth writes that it is
time to stop promoting condoms as a solution to the AIDS problem rather than as an excuse for
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