The WHO releases a report on the state of Tobacco Control annually.This provides the latest data from all WHO countries for up to 2011.
Read More » World Health Organisation 2011 Tobacco Control ReportThe effects of a stroke can be devastating and can result in early death or permanent disability. Furthermore, when someone does survive a stroke, it often puts an enormous burden on family members and/or carers. Moreover, stroke-related medical costs and disability put major strain on our healthcare system and the economy as a whole. So just how big is the problem?
Read More » Stroke – the silent killerThis paper highlights the provisions and regulations relating to smoking in workplaces and discusses the reported cases in which the various bargaining council arbitrators have dealt with the issue of employers’ and employees’ rights in cases relating to smoking at workplaces.
Read More » Smoking in the workplace in South Africa: Law and practice
Every day, approximately 1,000 women die in childbirth or from a pregnancy-related complication.The vast majority of these deaths can be prevented if access to emergency obstetric care is ensured.
Read More » Maternal Death: The Avoidable CrisisThis report details key activities in 2011 that support IAVI's mission to develop a safe, effective, accessible, preventive HIV vaccine for use throughout the world. Navigate to a specific section of the report below, download the entire report, view partner profiles and watch a message from IAVI CEO Margaret McGlynn. http://www.iavi.org/Pages/Annual-Progress-Report-2011.aspx#
Read More » IAVI 2011 Annual ReportHealth Policy and Planning blends such individual specialities as epidemiology, health and development economics, management and social policy, planning and social anthropology into a lively academic mix that constantly stimulates and keeps readers abreast of global health, focusing on issues of particular relevance to low and middle income countries. http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/current
Read More » Health Policy and Planning JournalThis report focuses on just some of the many factors that hamper the scaling up of DR-TB treatment – the limited availability and high cost of quality-assured medicines for resistant strains of the disease, owing to an insecure market and insufficient demand; and the research questions that remain unsolved with existing medicines.
Read More » DR-TB Drugs Under the Microscope: 2nd EditionThe HIV sentinel surveillance data has helped to map the epidemic and monitor HIV infection trends in the country and has served as an advocacy tool, resulting in the mobilization of partners, resources and development of innovative approaches by the national response to HIV and AIDS.
Read More » The 2011 National Antenatal Sentinel HIV & Syphilis Prevalence SurveySeasoned health professionals are familiar with the example of a busload of passengers, each instructing the driver to go in a different direction and resulting in a stationary bus as the driver cannot decide which instruction to follow.
Read More » District Health Barometer 2011/12The SAHR 2012/13 provides information on selected issues that are relevant to the six building blocks of health systems strengthening, the Negotiated Service Delivery Agreement and primary health care re-engineering.
Read More » The SA Health Review 2012/13
SOSHANGUVE. – More than 300 Soshanguve residents recently took part in a campaign, called Raising Roots, that gives parents, grandparents and caregivers all the advice and knowledge they need to raise healthier, happier children.
Read More » Parents educated about raising children
The risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) increases depending on both the number of cigarettes smoked a day and the number of years a person has smoked, according to research reported in BioMed Central's open access journal Arthritis Research & Therapy.
Read More » Smoking increases risk of rheumatoid arthritisOn the eve of the high-level Global Vaccines Summit hosted by Ban Ki-Moon, Bill Gates and General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned that high prices for new vaccines could put developing countries in the precarious situation of not being able to afford to fully vaccinate their children in the future.
Read More » MSF calls for cheaper child vaccines
The part worst affected was the female medical ward, particularly the ward for patients with tuberculosis (TB).
Read More » Heavy rain affected health services
GERT SIBANDE. – In April all eyes were on Mpumalanga as the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) held its first plenary meeting for the year here.
Read More » Community hopes SANAC meeting will strengthen commitment to HIV
