Health e News
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has announced that former President of Botswana Festus Mogae and former American Health and Human Services Secretary Michael O. Leavitt will lead an independent and thorough review of the fund’€™s financial safeguards.
- ///Health
A University of Stellenbosch computer scientist has been honoured for his contribution to better understanding HIV.
- ///News
The 18th Conference on Retrovirus and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was recently held in Boston.
- ///Health
OPINION: As a parent, educator and citizen of this country, I am pleased with the aggressive approach adopted by our government in its campaign against HIV and AIDS, especially amongst learners in our schools. What I find rather disturbing, however, is the plan by government to introduce HIV testing in schools, without thorough preparation. Are the schools ready for the HIV testing of their learners? By Misheck Ndebele.
An initiative aimed at improving the quality of healthcare in resource poor settings in Africa was launched in Cape Town yesterday.
- ///Health
OPINION: The Director of the Children’s Rights Centre addresses children’€™s rights in the context of HIV. By Cati Vawda.
- ///Health
OPINION: For too long the debate about HIV testing and human rights has largely focused on the implications of the former for the latter: how testing has the potential to undermine rights. Given the experiences of many people living with HIV, this is understandable: many have lost ‘€“ or been denied ‘€“ jobs; insurance policies have been denied routinely; access to health care services has often been limited. By Jonathan Berger
CAPE TOWN – The South Africa government is extremely concerned about the continued dissatisfaction of patients who often face rude staff, long queues as well as dirty and unsafe clinics and hospitals, the Director General of Health acknowledged at a meeting on healthcare standards and quality.
- ///News
Some 60 000 fewer people died of AIDS last year than in 2005, thanks mainly to the country’€™s antiretroviral treatment campaign.
- ///Health
OPINION: South Africa’€™s HIV/AIDS National Strategic Plan for health has two objectives ‘€“ reducing the incidence of new HIV infections by half and placing 80% of those in need onto anti-retroviral treatment. As a country, we are making some progress in scaling up our national HIV treatment programmes, but concurrently we need to maintain the status of those that are HIV negative. By Joanne Brink.
- ///News
African countries need to take steps to monitor and prevent the spread of drug-resistant HIV. This was the warning from researchers at the annual conference on retroviruses in Boston last week.
- ///Health
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) has questioned why two drugs companies are to receive millions of dollars in a vaccine deal being branded as a huge breakthrough for poor countries.