About 100 protestors took to the streets yesterday to demand the expansion of Daveyton Main Clinic and an end to recurring HIV drug stock outs. The protest is the second in two years.
In the wake of protests demanding better patent laws to allow South Africans access to cheaper medicines, politicians had little to say about the issue of affordable medicines at a debate yesterday.
The National Treasury could be asked to fund the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) directly after provinces fail to pay up in what activists have described as a long-standing problem.
DURBAN - Condom use last year declined among all age groups in South Africa, according to the latest household survey released by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).
DURBAN – All patients diagnosed with drug-resistant tuberculosis will now have access to a promising new drug bedaquiline, which is still undergoing trials, via a clinical access programme driven by the national health department.
The ongoing stock-out of antiretroviral medicine is at the forefront of AIDS activists’ agenda at the 6th South African AIDS conference, which opened last night (18 June).
