As South Africa enters the festive season, more accidents are expected as people travel home at the...
Author - Thabo Molelekwa
Patients on ARVs forced to make do with only seven days’ supply...
#MedicineStockout: Patients fear defaulting on ARV treatment, as some clinics in Ekurhuleni...
#AidsVirtual2020: Promising research for COVID19
Important advances in COVID-19 research, including promising data on new treatments, were...
#AIDS2020Virtual: Covid-1919 impacts 17.7 million people on ARVs
The World Health Organization and UNAIDS has warned that if efforts are not made...
#AIDS2020Virtual:Impact of COVID19 on HIV services a worry
The world’s largest conference on HIV opened today in a special virtual format due to COVID-19. It...
#CoronavirusSA: Barriers to ARV access during lockdown
For many HIV-positive South Africans, the national lockdown has hindered their ability to easily...
#NHIPublicHearings: ‘First fix the issues, then implement the...
While the majority of Gauteng residents want the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill to be...
Monatea: The new no-sugar drink
With obesity levels on the rise globally and locally, and the link between it and the high intake...
Thousands go hungry after mismanagement of food relief
While the Gauteng government investigates corruption in the running of its food banks, those who...
Stunting haunts a child for life
Poor nutrition in early childhood has a number of negative consequences for people later in life...
Addressing gay men’s HIV risk
Men who have sex with men (MSM) in Africa are twice as likely as the general population to be HIV...
No closure after mom’s mysterious hospital death
When Sammy Sappie went to visit his mother in Pholosong Hospital a few hours after she was...
Counting the costs of flu
The flu season can see you coughing up about R4000 in costs and the South African economy loses...
Regulate private health prices, inquiry told
The long-awaited Competition Commission inquiry into private healthcare kicked off this week with...
Gauteng to test 1 million by AIDS Day
The Gauteng Department of Health aims to test a million people for HIV by World AIDS Day on 1...