Heart disease and stroke on the rise, warns report
More South Africans are dying from heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases than ever before, according to a new report.
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Fighting ‘sugar daddies’ – or raising ‘sugar’ girls?
Nonhlanhla Matsunyane was in Grade 11 when a man 20 years older than her followed her to school one day. Within months, the man was providing her struggling family with groceries and money – and she was providing him with…
South Africa to move to earlier HIV treatment
It is not a matter of if South Africa will move to earlier HIV treatment, but when, says Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.
When HIV is the ‘third wheel’ in a relationship
Although one pill a day can manage HIV, one young woman says there is still is not a pill for navigating love – and sex – in relationships where the virus is always the "third wheel."
South Africa celebrates 10 years of free HIV treatment
HIV treatment was introduced after a huge struggle, but this week South Africa celebrated a decade of free antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.
Traditional medicine almost kills baby
When it comes to traditional medicine, some young parents are torn between the advice of nurses and that of their own parents. For one young Mpumalanga mother, this battle of wills almost cost her baby’s life.
HIV goes up, condom use goes down
South Africa’s latest HIV survey finds boys having sex earlier, plummeting condom use and that unmarried couples living together are more at risk of HIV than married or single people.
South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence & Behaviour Survey, 2012
The latest national HIV survey in South Africa finds increases in HIV prevalence, decreases in condom use and earlier sexual debut for boys among other findings.
Poor housing leaves Tshwane girl gasping for breath
After heavy rains tore into her family’s roof, a Tshwane toddler is at the mercy of damp and cold, which trigger severe asthma attacks.
National Treasury could be called in to fund NHLS directly
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.
Miners, families live between death and hope
South Africa’s first class action silicosis suit could win compensation for hundreds of thousands of miners and widows – and prepare the way for a class action suit against the mines for tuberculosis.
SADC to harmonise TB treatment, cross-border referrals
Southern African countries intend to harmonise tuberculosis (TB) treatment and create cross-border patient databases and referral systems to deal with the TB raging in the region’s mines.
Poor treatment boosts XDR-TB in SA
South Africa’s multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment regimen may be fuelling the rise of MDR-TB as a recent study suggests that many patients are already resistant to at least three of its standard drugs.
Nurses to lead charge against DR-TB
In a country of more than 50 million people, it is hard to be a “first” but Ntombasekaya Mlandu is. She is the first nurse trained to initiate and manage multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients.
Doctor turns patient after contracting XDR-TB
It took one cough and a sputter to change the life of a West Rand doctor after she contracted extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) at Johannesburg’s Lerato Hospital.