Sharing a child’€™s HIV status with them can be difficult for a caregiver, but according to the Wits Institute for Health HIV and Related Diseases, disclosure has incredible benefits. Health-e visited an HIV-positive nine year-old boy who proves that early disclosure could be advantageous.

In 2007 the first Healthy Active Kids Report Card published by a panel of health scientists gave South African children an overall health grade of C- with lower marks for unhealthy eating, tobacco use and physical education. The 2010 Healthy Active Kids Report Card again scores the health of South African kids with an overall C-.

Appreciating and honouring health care givers in oncology units was the theme for this year’€™s World Cancer Day commemorated by PinkDrive, a project which has been at the forefront of establishing projects focused on cancer education and awareness.

Do you know your partner’€™s HIV status? Would you still be willing to be with someone if they told you that they were HIV-positive? Katlego and Mpho, had to confront these questions in their relationship.

With a cancer death rate more than double that of Europe or North America, African researchers have announced a range of initiatives to tackle the epidemic.

Nokuthula Jam-Jam (40), an unemployed mother of five is furious that her children can’€™t go to crèche.

Endinako Ngxangashe (3) sits at her grandmother’€™s feet, intensely following her every move. She innocently asks her grandmother No-andile Ngxangashe’€™s (55) why she no longer goes to school. Ngxangashe’€™s candidly looks at her granddaughter and smiles.

Young children from an impoverished Cape Town community are spending their days on the street as bureaucracy hampers their access to safety and early education.

Those peddling Whoonga, the deadly drug sweeping through KwaZulu-Natal townships, should face murder charges as they are deliberately poisoning people.

Teenagers say they know all they need to know about HIV/AIDS, yet they often fail to make the right decisions to protect themselves.