SA offers HIV vaccine research hope
BARCELONA - South Africa is the only country in the world where a large AIDS vaccine trial is being planned, as the global scientific community struggles to find a way to eradicate HIV.
Kerry Cullinan
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HIV in children halved – UNAIDS
New HIV infections in children have halved since 2001 and been cut by one-third in adults.
Oncology body backs doctor attacked by medical aid
The South African Oncology Consortium (SAOC) has rallied behind a cancer doctor accused by medical aid giant Discovery of prescribing the “wrong medicine” for one of its members.
Task team to probe healthcare meltdown
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has sent a task team to the Eastern Cape to investigate the deterioration of provincial health services.
Proposed alcohol advertising ban may be just the start
Alcohol abuse is the third biggest cause of premature death in South Africa, and researchers argue a total ban on alcohol advertising should be just the start.
Cancer patient gets her treatment
Cancer patient Thobeka Xaba will finally get treatment covered by her medical aid after an agreement was reached last week between Discovery Health and her oncologist.
Discovery in dispute with cancer patient
Thobeka Xaba, 23, is in a life-and-death struggle against an invasive cancer that has immobilised her left arm. But she has had no chemotherapy since 25 March because her medical aid, Discovery, refuses to pay for the medicine recommended by her oncologist.
Fat nation with big health problems
Seventy percent of South African women are overweight or obese, many people are unfit and we are heading for a non-communicable diseases pandemic
Free State saves more mothers
The Free State has slashed the deaths of women in childbirth by 43% in one year, thanks mainly to making ambulances available to take those with labour complications to hospitals.
SA an ‘outstanding model’, says UNAIDS report
South Africa is an “outstanding model” of what can be achieved in the fight against HIV/AIDS, according to Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Private pharmacies to help end stock-outs?
Public health patients may soon be able to collect their medicine from private pharmacies in a massive public-private partnership that could eliminate medicine stock-outs.
WHO’s new HIV guidelines may ‘distract’, warns expert
While government grapples with how to accommodate new World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines on HIV treatment, which mean over a million extra people are immediately eligible for antiretroviral medicine, a leading AIDS expert has warned that these may be a “distraction”.