The CEO of the R146-million Health and Welfare Sector Education and Training Authority (HWSETA) has been suspended, allegedly for 'gross misconduct' ' yet he claims it is because he questioned his board's operations, particularly huge payments made to some board members.
Shocking figures about HIV infection in babies and high AIDS-related child mortality have made the transmission of HIV from mothers to babies a key focus of third South African AIDS conference.
World-first trial for KwaZulu-Natal of vaginal gel that may protect women against HIV.
An independent 'ombudsman' to monitor patients' access to health care has been mooted by the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) ahead of its three-day public hearings on health services.
Government's long-awaited multi-million rand HIV/AIDS communication tender has finally been awarded to a single consortium headed by Hunt Lascaris.
Rape survivors are not getting the healthcare they need.
The detention of patients with extremely drug resistant (XDR) TB should only be considered as a last resort when all other voluntary measures have failed, according to the South African health department. By Chris Makhaye & Kerry Cullinan.
Powerful research on the benefits of breastfeeding changes government policy.
For years, there has been a battle over the best way to protect babies born to HIV positive mothers living in poor areas from getting the virus ' which has essentially boiled down to a battle between those who advocate breast feeding and those who advocate bottle-feeding with milk formula.
Male circumcision became officially endorsed as an HIV preventive measure today (wed 28th march) by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNAIDS.
Only 32 of the 200 patients diagnosed with extremely drug resistant (XDR) TB at the Church of Scotland Hospital in Tugela Ferry are still alive.
Far more African babies infected with HIV by their mothers may survive to puberty than previously thought ' but the health services are ill-equipped to deal with HIV positive teens who need special care.
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