World Health Organisation calls for treatment for all
In a landmark move, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended that all people living with HIV be started on treatment as soon as possible following diagnosis.
Laura Lopez Gonzalez
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Sustainable Development Goals: Utopian dream or plausible plan?
For the next 15 years, the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals will guide what donors fund and what countries push – and the world may just take a page from Africa’s playbook as it pursue universal health coverage.
Mothers, children collateral damage in immigration clampdown
In South Africa, all uninsured pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under six are entitled to free health care. But amid confusing provinicial policies, some health care workers may have unwittingly become a law unto themselves with dire consequence for immigrants and their children.
Civil society groups win admission into landmark silicosis case
The South Gauteng High Court has ruled to allow the Treatment Action Campaign and Sonke Gender Justice to give evidence at an upcoming hearing that could pave the way for the country’s first class action suit against the gold industry.
Civil society groups push for entry into silicosis case
Health and gender activists are likely to know by the week’s end whether they will be able to testify in what could be the country’s first class action case against the gold industry.
SA’s food chain a noose around women’s necks
Despite the current hype about Women’s Month, no one is more likely to be hungry than the women of this country.
Activists worldwide call for immediate HIV treatment
South Africa may join just ten countries in the world that provide antiretrovirals (ARVs) to people living with HIV upon diagnosis as new research spurs activists to demand immediate treatment for all people living with HIV.
NHLS workers picket head office
Employees at the National Health Laboratory Services’ (NHLS) Sandringham office embarked on a lunchtime picket earlier today as they continue to push for a wage increase.
The call unanswered: Emergency services ‘non-existent’ in E.Cape communities
Pensioners living in rural Eastern Cape villages say they have never seen an ambulance in their lives as a deadly combination of poor management and budget shortfalls keeps ambulances out of rural communities.
Drug stock outs cast long shadow over AIDS conference
With more than one in 10 health facilities nationally reporting a drug stock out in the last nine months, this year’s SA AIDS Conference may have been more about what’s missing than what’s been done in the country’s HIV programme.
Price tag of HIV response to more than double by 2033
With 3.1 million people on antiretrovirals (ARV), South Africa has the world’s largest ARV programme, but sustaining it – and the HIV response – will more than double in the next two decades, according to new research.
More than R130 million slated for new TB drugs
In just four years, South Africa has seen a 40-fold increase in health facilities treating drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) as government pledges more than R130 million for new medicines.