World on brink of post-antibiotic era – WHO
Resistance to common antibiotic medicine has been recorded in every region of the world, according to a report released yesterday by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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National toilet plan
The first national sanitation summit was convened yesterday to start drawing up a “people’s plan for sanitation and dignity”.
ARV programme saves 780 000 lives
South Africa’s HIV antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programme saved 780 000 lives between 2003 and 2012, according to a recently released independent review.
Govt to protect antibiotics from overuse
The days of doctors indiscriminately dishing out broad-spectrum antibiotics may soon be over, as government moves to cut over-prescribing.
Pneumonia ‘super-bug’ causes shivers in SA
The first patient with pneumonia resistant to all antibiotics was recorded in South Africa last year, raising the terrifying possibility of a “post-antibiotic era”.
Is HIV no longer scary?
The latest national HIV survey shows plummeting condom use, increases in multiple concurrent partnerships and more boys having sex younger. Has South Africa gotten complacent about HIV?
Fighting ‘sugar daddies’ – or raising ‘sugar’ girls?
Nonhlanhla Matsunyane was in Grade 11 when a man 20 years older than her followed her to school one day. Within months, the man was providing her struggling family with groceries and money – and she was providing him with…
HIV goes up, condom use goes down
South Africa’s latest HIV survey finds boys having sex earlier, plummeting condom use and that unmarried couples living together are more at risk of HIV than married or single people.
MRC announces first woman president
The Medical Research Council (MRC) will get its first woman president next month when Professor Glenda Gray succeeds Professor Abdool Karim.
SAHRC: Water, sanitation services in crisis
Despite flattering statistics presented by government about community access to water and sanitation, many communities experience “a starkly different reality.”
Vital donation made in fight against abuse
The Vital Foundation has set aside R1,9 million to assist organisations fighting the abuse of women and children.
Security officials seize AIDS council’s computers
Security officials have seized the computers of Free State AIDS Council members in an apparent bid to catch whistle blowers who exposed recent medicine shortages in provincial clinics, according to Section27 Director Mark Heywood.