When young Nompumelelo Sithole* from a small farming town in Mpumalanga asked local clinic nurses for contraception, they told her to come back when she was 18 years old. Now 13 years old, Nompumelelo has an eight-month-old baby.
Published by the Treatment Action Campaign and Section27, the latest NSP Review looks at retention in care, health leadership and the role of citizen journalism in tracking progress against national targets.
Holiday roadblocks could be vehicles for change as Tshwane paired cracking down on drivers under the influence with raising awareness about the dangers of drugs.
Security officials have seized the computers of Free State AIDS Council members in an apparent bid to catch whistle blowers who exposed recent medicine shortages in provincial clinics, according to Section27 Director Mark Heywood.
In Research & Reality, we call on funders and researchers to capitalize on lessons learned from a range of recent HIV prevention trials via better problem solving, more critical thinking and coordinated action.
UNAIDS talk about the end of AIDS is “misleading and potentially irresponsible,” said Section27 director Mark Heywood.
President Jacob Zuma should use his influence to ensure that China donates money to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
Increasing tobacco taxes is the single most powerful way for low- and middle-income countries to reduce deaths and disease from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer and heart disease, according to international experts.
One of South Africa’s first politicians to openly speak about HIV, Nelson Mandela has died at the age of 95. Health-e takes a look at how local activists and global health leaders are remembering the father of the nation.
GENEVA, 5 December 2013—The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is greatly saddened by the death of South Africa’s former President, Nelson Mandela, one of Africa’s greatest leaders and a passionate advocate for people living with HIV.
Stellenbosch University recently launched the African Cancer Institute (ACI) to build African countries’ abilities to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. Health-e caught up with ACI’s director, Vikash Sewram, to find out how the institute plans to achieve this bold objective.
Eastern Cape citizen journalist Mtshana Mvilisi presents the first in a series of regular columns and says HIV-positive people are taking dangerous gambles with drug resistance.
When Paul Mawasha was diagnosed with HIV 15 years ago at the age of 29, he never thought he would see live to see 40.
This letter, delivered to South Africa Deputy President and national AIDS council chairperson Kgalema Motlanthe, outlines ongoing concerns regarding HIV treatment and health in Mpumalanga.
South Africa's largest association of people living with HIV, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), boycotted South Africa’s World AIDS Day commemoration as more than 900 members marched on the site of celebrations in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga.
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