Released at a March regional meeting on tuberculosis (TB) in southern Africa's mines, these documents cover TB treatment harmonization, compensation and the economic benefits of regular TB screening of mining communities.
When drinking came between one Mpumalanga man and his tuberculosis (TB) treatment, his family stepped in. Now, he says, he has learned the importance of taking his treatment daily.
The first patient with pneumonia resistant to all antibiotics was recorded in South Africa last year, raising the terrifying possibility of a “post-antibiotic era”.
The latest national HIV survey shows plummeting condom use, increases in multiple concurrent partnerships and more boys having sex younger. Has South Africa gotten complacent about HIV?
Dineo Hlako is 19 years old and in matric. She is in her third trimester of her pregnancy and in the midst of writing her final matric exams. She never planned to fall pregnant while she was in school but…
More South Africans are dying from heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases than ever before, according to a new report.
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…
It is not a matter of if South Africa will move to earlier HIV treatment, but when, says Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.
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."
HIV treatment was introduced after a huge struggle, but this week South Africa celebrated a decade of free antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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