Khayelitsha healthcare providers are once again blazing the trail, finding innovative ways to tackle the drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) epidemic with great success by decentralising the treatment to primary care level rather than relying on the over-burdened hospital system.
Read More »The success of decentralising DR-TB treatmentZimbabwe's remarkable HIV decline in 10 years can mainly be ascribed to behaviour change, an analysis has revealed.
Read More »How Zim is beating HIVSouth Africa's Medicines Control Council (MCC) refused to fast track critical fixed dose combination (FDC) antiretrovirals for inclusion in the country's massive antiretroviral tender outcome announced in December, several sources have confirmed.
Read More »MCC fails to deliver best ARV combosA number of interventions have been implemented in response to recommendations made by a team of experts who critically assessed South Africa's public health system last year, health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi revealed in an interview.
Read More »Minister – Responding to the ISTIt has been 18 months at the helm of one of South Africa's toughest cabinet portfolios and already Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has endured a disgruntled doctors' strike, a crippling public sector work stoppage, the untimely death of his deputy minister and complex debates on a National Health Insurance initiative, which is really the critical transformation of the health system.
Read More »PHC the cornerstone of NHI – MinisterSeveral stories plot the toilet saga in Khayelitsha including a timeline, the A to Z of toilet types and the questions sent to the mayor.
Read More »A – Z of toiletsIt is fitting that one of the sharpest minds and committed leaders of South Africa's illustrious AIDS activist movement has documented not only the atrocities perpetuated by the Mbeki-Manto reign, but also the evolution of one of the greatest civil society activist movements in our country's history.
Read More »Debunking DenialismSouth Africa's health system has to make a 180 degree turn, away from the dominant curative health system, which is unsustainable and unaffordable, to a health system where prevention is the cornerstone, believes health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.
Read More »SA must move to a health system focused on prevention – MinisterSome 36 million people have been cured of tuberculosis (TB) over the past 15 years through a rigorous approach to treatment, according to the World Health Organisation. However, last year 1.8 million people died from TB including half a million deaths associated with HIV - many of them because they did not access antiretrovirals.
Read More »TB report ‘ Millions cured, but too many still dyingSouth Africa has moved swiftly to develop a male circumcision plan that would have buy-in from all stakeholders and will go beyond being a purely medical intervention, ideally also engaging men on among others HIV prevention, gender issues and alcohol abuse.
Read More »SA male circumcision plan almost thereSeveral health-related budget decisions taken in the past financial year violated the Constitution, the National Health Act, the Public Finance Management Act and the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act.
Read More »Health budget decisions may be violating ConstitutionDUBLIN - A tall, vivacious South African redhead drew one of the biggest cheers at the opening session of the LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Summit which officially kicked off in the Irish capital yesterday (SUBS MONDAY).
Read More »Coping with cancerOPINION: The crisis that led to doctors downing their stethoscopes recently was not created in the last two months. This calamity was created over at least 18 months after almost a decade of neglect by former health Minister Manto Tshabalala Msimang.
Read More »Doctors’ strike thanks to health department incompetenceThe world's largest open scientific conference on HIV/AIDS ended in Cape Town this week with a sense of optimism over future possibilities to stem the epidemic, outrage over funding cutbacks and revelations over failure to steadfastly implement tried and tested HIV prevention interventions and speed up universal access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.
Read More »Conference ends in optimismCAPE TOWN - South Africa's male circumcision (MC) research project in Orange Farm outside Johannesburg has circumcised over 9 000 men since January 2008, but are unable to assist men coming from outside their catchment area because of restrictions on the trial conditions.
Read More »High demand for male circumcision
