Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla
One of the country’s largest rural HIV/AIDS programmes was officially handed over to the Eastern Cape health department on Thursday in a ceremony held in Lusikisiki.
The commuted overtime system in Western Cape hospitals is so out of touch with reality that it cannot be implemented without resorting to widespread fraud. Dr Louis Reynolds, Senior Specialist at Red Cross Children’s Hospital shares his personal views in this month’s edition of Critical Health Perspectives.
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More teachers are dying than ever before and most of them are African and women. These and other findings are contained in a report released this week ‘ Educator Attrition and Mortality in South Africa.
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In the USA it was not until the 1970s that a condom could be purchased legally as a contraceptive measure. For almost a century they were available only as a prophylaxis for disease control. Very little has been written about the history of the modern condom, something Paula Treichler is seeking to rectify. She spoke to Health-e on a recent visit to South Africa.
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When life is limited, the quality of life comes into sharp focus. Hospice and palliative care centres in South Africa bring a wealth of experience to enrich life, as well as to help patients die with dignity.
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Despite the diversion created by the unfortunate and ill timed Nevirapine statements from the South Africa government, the Bangkok AIDS conference has managed to place the urgent need for millions to access lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy on the world agenda. Health-e captures the critical messages from the Thailand conference.
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South African scientists attending the AIDS conference in Bangkok have presented evidence showing that resistance to Nevirapine is reduced dramatically six months after the mother has taken the drug. Further evidence suggested that combination therapy was the way forward.
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A prison story from Nelson Mandela captivated journalists at the world AIDS conference as the former president used the opportunity to drive home the link between HIV and TB.
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In a world of numbers and science, the human dimension of HIV/AIDS is less easily quantifiable but critically important. Human rights and language featured strongly in the Jonathan Mann Memorial Lecture at the Bangkok AIDS conference.
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In a world of numbers and science, the human dimension of HIV/AIDS is less easily quantifiable but critically important. Human rights and language featured strongly in the Jonathan Mann Memorial Lecture at the Bangkok AIDS conference.
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The Medicines Control Council has said that it did not foresee any disruption to the mother to child prevention HIV programme in South Africa in the light of the announcement that the antiretroviral drug nevirapine was not recommended as a single treatment
HIV/AIDS is a problem that is mainly ‘moral, social and economic’ rather than a health issue,Ugandan President Yuweri Museveni told delegates at the International AIDS conference in Bangkok.