TORONTO ' More effective ways to prevent HIV prevention than simply the old ABC approach of 'Abstain, Be faithful and Condomise' may be available soon, according to research being presented at the biennial International AIDS conference this week.
Reduce malaria, worms and bilharzia, make border posts more efficient ' and HIV rates will drop, argues a US expert.
Over-crowding and long queues are part of daily life for Diepsloot residents seeking primary health care at the Johannesburg informal settlement's O.R. Tambo clinic. And staff shortages are the main fuelling factor.
For many Khayelitsha residents, water is a shared tap, sanitation a non-existent luxury and diarrhoea, a constant reality. On the eve of local elections, Health-e investigates how access to basic services impacts on residents' health.
Gloria Vena has given up swatting the flies gathering around her face. Her eyes seem empty and distant as she stares out the front door of her house, the back of her neighbour's rickety shack a few steps away from her makeshift front door.
The District Health Barometer paints a fascinating picture of how the country's 53 health districts are faring to keep their residents healthy.
Thulani Shezi's New Germany Road settlement is one of about 500 shacklands in the eThekwini metro, and it only had a few portable toilets and a distant tap before the ablution block was built two years ago.
Residents in Diepsloot and Orange Farm struggle to get basic services such as clean water and sanitation.
As long as bird flu can only be transmitted to humans by infected birds, there is no need for South Africans to panic. But it's only a matter of time before it becomes transmitted by humans.
More people are affected by the negative impact of poor water supply and sanitation than by war, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction combined, according to a paper published in this week's issue of The Lancet. Almost 4 000 children are killed everyday by this 'silent humanitarian crisis'.
A new study has found that prolonged shift-work might be bad for your health. Health-e News investigates. By Adele Hamilton.
Experts told him it was impossible do hip replacements in rural KwaZulu-Natal. But 'Rural Doctor of the Year' Victor Fredlund doesn't understand 'impossible'
The Bareki Tribal Authority and the concerned residents of Heuningvlei in the North West province have demanded that Gencor and it's subsidiary, Gefco, clean up an old mine and mill sites that they believe pose a serious health hazard. Kerry Cullinan reports.
Residents in Kayamandi would like the reinstatement of a central complaints office to deal with the sanitation problems that plague the settlement. In this audio Thandeka Teyise speaks to Wilna Kloppers of Water, Forestry and Enviromental Affairs in the Western Cape about her department's involvement in the Khayamandi area.
With 6000 children dying each day of water-borne diseases, delegates at the World Summit on Sustainable Development are fighting for a specific target on sanitation to be included in the final plan of action. But their proposal is being opposed by the US, Japan, Canada and New Zealand who wish to avoid being tied down to a specific target.
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