South African doctor on Ebola’s front lines
Medecines Sans Frontières (MSF) doctor South African Stefan Kruger recently touched down in the eye of the Ebola storm where entire households are being erased from their family trees by the disease.
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Opinion: It’s time we caught up to HIV science
The country’s first openly HIV-positive Mr Gay South Africa finalist Charles Jacobs asks, HIV science has changed but have we? The latest court case against the South African National Defense Force (SANDF) may be a sign that we haven’t.
Opinion: Doctors don’t need coercion to respond to need
The country’s top three doctors’ associations continue to rail against new legislation that gives government the final say over where doctors practice, writes South African Medical Journal News Editor Chris Bateman.
Opinion: The silver bullet of indicators?
The Treatment Action Campaign’s Marcus Low writes why HIV viral load testing may be the most important HIV indicator. Now, if we could only monitor it.
Opinion: Doctor bodies speak on Certificate of Need
Doctor associations are appealing to government to work with them, writes South African Medical Journal News Editor Chris Bateman following the sudden promulgation of the long-dormant but controversial Certificate of Needs (CoN) law.
Opinion: Helping to fix the system
Antiretrovirals continue to be the most reported medicine out of stock as the civil society Stop Stock Out Project continues, write Project Coordinator Monique Lines and Medicines Sans Frontieres pharmacist Tinne Gils.
Opinion: Facing the ‘White Plague’ in a white coat
As a medical student, Dr Dalene von Delft contracted multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The experience has propelled her into advocacy, she writes why.
Opinion: TB behind bars
Despite court-mandated moves by government to stem the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic, a recent Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) investigation has found just eight doctors serve the Department of Correctional Services, according to this piece written by TAC researcher Lieve Vanleeuw.