Health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang used her quarterly briefing to chastise the media for lending coverage to Jacob Zuma's shower comments, for reporting 'only on HIV/AIDS' and for discounting her claims on nutrition. She was updating the media on progress being made by Government's social cluster in Pretoria.
A newly established rape centre in Khayelitsha has made a significant impact on a community where rape is a daily reality, from babies to grandmothers.
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and the National Department of Health are set to lock horns again - and this time it is over the exclusion of the activist group and its allies from the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on AIDS (UNGASS).
In the absence of new TB drugs a 'trial' is being run in 8 sites in the Western Cape and 16 in Zambia to see whether various public health interventions could make a difference.
The Western Cape has always had a high TB burden with some clinics overwhelmed by the sheer numbers, however, two districts are managing to record excellent cure rates. Health-e spoke to Dr Keith Cloete, acting head of health programmes in the province.
For many Khayelitsha residents, water is a shared tap, sanitation a non-existent luxury and diarrhoea, a constant reality. On the eve of local elections, Health-e investigates how access to basic services impacts on residents' health.
In a move to address the critical shortage of nurses, several nursing colleges will be re-opened, Health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has announced.
Pressure is mounting on the Medicines Control Council (MCC) to fast track the registration of anti-retroviral drug Tenofovir, a replacement for widely-used d4T, which is proving to be highly toxic for many patients.
State hospitals are facing a number of problems mainly related to staff shortages, that are making them 'highly stressed institutions', Minister of Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi has acknowledged.
Government is investigating whether teenage pregnancies are being driven by people who want access to the Child Support Grant, Minister of Social Development Zola Skweyiya has revealed.
There was little to celebrate in South Africa and more specifically in the Eastern Cape on World Aids Day.
The TAC and the SA Medical Association have joined forces in court charging vitamin seller Matthias Rath and attempting to force the minister to take a stand.
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