Call for graphic health images on SA cigarette boxes
Activists say our anti-tobacco policies have gone "stale" calling for stronger regulations including health warnings in the form of graphic pictures.
Amy Green
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Transgender and HIV: stigma sabotages prevention
Transgender people are one of the key populations identified as being at a higher risk of HIV - but they face stigma from society and healthcare workers. One transgender man explains why his community "needs attention now".
HIV+ SA children can benefit from new software tool
With a new online tool, doctors, public healthcare workers can track who is, and isn’t, doing well on HIV treatment, in real time.
Superbugs baffle many South Africans
Preventing antibiotic resistance puzzles many at a time where momentum is growing to address this growing public health threat.
Diabetes and inequality: Most Africans undiagnosed
Almost a century after the discovery of insulin diabetes is still killing many people, especially those in poorer nations.
SA kids need family support to avoid drugs
Children are more likely to turn to drugs when their parents are absent in the home, according to Soul City.
The vet and the wildebeest
Tuberculosis can be passed from animals to people, a British vet tells Health-e how he struggled to get diagnosed and believes the problem of zoonotic TB is a biggesr problem in Africa than most people realise.
Much shorter TB treatment offers hope
There is hope for people living with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) as the “gruelling” two-year treatment with “terrible side-effects” such as deafness can now be successfully shortened to just nine months.
Underfunding ‘nightmare’ hampers the global TB battle
There is a “nightmare of underfunding” for tuberculosis (TB), described by experts as “the greatest infectious disease killer on the planet”.
XDR TB trial saves lives
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is usually a death sentence. But a breakthrough South African trial announced at the World Conference on Lung Health in Liverpool last week may have changed this.
One in four people globally has latent TB
Almost a quarter of the world’s population is infected with ‘latent’ tuberculosis (TB) - a dormant form of the disease, threatening the World Health Organisation’s aim to fully eliminate TB by 2050.
MSF offers access to new TB drug in SA
After feeling ill for months, 16-year-old Sinethemba Kuse received the news that she had multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) from her local clinic in Khayelitsha outside of Cape Town in December last year.